Show HN: Openring, a free and decentralized network of blogs
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#2What's the use case for something like this ?
Looks a bit like what any RSS reader would provide. Or maybe it's meant to publish links to other blogs on a separate site, which could work if the articles have a somewhat permissive license, I guess.
Re: Show HN: Openring, a free and decentralized network of blogs
#3What's the use case for something like this ? Looks a bit like what any RSS reader would provide. Or maybe it's meant to publish links to other blogs on a separate site, which could work if the articles have a somewhat permissive license, I guess.
What's the use case for something like this?
Looks like it takes RSS feeds and makes a blogroll. I thought most blogging platforms had that function built-in. Certainly Blogger does (ex: http://www.sloopin.com).
Maybe this is for if you built your own blogging platform and don't have a blogroll plug-in/feature available.
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#4What's the use case for something like this ? Looks a bit like what any RSS reader would provide. Or maybe it's meant to publish links to other blogs on a separate site, which could work if the articles have a somewhat permissive license, I guess.
It allows bloggers that want to keep control over their own platform and content (read: not use Medium) to be part of a bigger network of selfhosted blogs. Like in the good old days.
I for one hope it catches on
Re: Show HN: Openring, a free and decentralized network of blogs
#5What's the use case for something like this ? Looks a bit like what any RSS reader would provide. Or maybe it's meant to publish links to other blogs on a separate site, which could work if the articles have a somewhat permissive license, I guess.
You rig it into your own blog. It's designed for use with static site generators. Check out the links on the bottom of my blog posts:
https://drewdevault.com/2019/06/13/My-journey-from-MIT-to-GP...
They're generated by this software.
Re: Show HN: Openring, a free and decentralized network of blogs
#6What's the use case for something like this ? Looks a bit like what any RSS reader would provide. Or maybe it's meant to publish links to other blogs on a separate site, which could work if the articles have a somewhat permissive license, I guess.
It allows bloggers that want to keep control over their own platform and content (read: not use Medium) to be part of a bigger network of selfhosted blogs. Like in the good old days. I for one hope it catches on
How does it solve curation & search?
Edit: I'm asking because I suspect your answer is going to be "it doesn't/that's not the point/who cares?" But people who read blogs will just flock to the centralized services that solve curation & search quite effectively and keep users reading. And then this centralized service will have strong incentives to become _more_ centralized, not less, and decentralized solutions like this one never really gain traction and become functionally irrelevant.
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#7TL;DR, because comments to date suggest people don't bother reading the link:
1/ Yes, it's a blogroll.
2/ It's meant for static site generators.
3/ It solves curation and search by you doing the curating yourself, in the form of providing links to RSS feeds of the blogs you like.
Looks really nice. I think I'll hook it up to my generator.
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#8ah, what's old is new again. i can't wait to get my 1999 on! =)
the subtitle is a little more informative: "A webring for static site generators." i'm glad to see this kind of the movement toward self-deplatforming.
i wonder how comments are both attributable and decentralized? i'm not a fan of comments being blog posts themselves (which would be one solution to this), as they're often "less formal" than a post and should reflect that.
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#9Looks nice. Is there any reason to use getopt over flag in Go?
How do you find the experience with sr.ht?
Re: Show HN: Openring, a free and decentralized network of blogs
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
It allows bloggers that want to keep control over their own platform and content (read: not use Medium) to be part of a bigger network of selfhosted blogs. Like in the good old days. I for one hope it catches on
How does it solve curation & search? Edit: I'm asking because I suspect your answer is going to be "it doesn't/that's not the point/who cares?" But people who read blogs will just flock to the centralized services that solve curation & search quite effectively and keep users reading. And then this centralized service will have strong incentives to become _more_ centralized, not less, and decentralized solutions like…
It's meant to be used and configured for individual blogs - you provide the sites you're following and it picks out articles. I'd say the selection of blogs you follow is curation enough. It's not meant for use a la medium.