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Re: Hacker News but for independent blogs

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Post by samtheDamned »

brulx126 wrote: post #32
exitnode wrote: post #4

Very cool but I would like to be able to create an account with my mail address instead of using a Mastodon account because I am trying to avoid social media.

I haven't tried but in principle you only need a Mastodon compatible authentication, there are other services that are not twitter clones. See for example https://fedi.tips/what-other-kinds-of-servers-are-on-the-fed... or more complete https://fediverse.observer/allsoftwares

I can't speak to other fediverse software but I tried a few lemmy servers to no avail. My mastodon instance is under maintenance so I guess I'll have to wait until that's done to sign up.

Re: Hacker News but for independent blogs

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Post by viermalbe »

bookofjoe wrote: post #110
moebrowne wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Making it too easy invites spam. Sending a single email seems like a good compromise to me.

I agree, that would be a good compromise and I would do it in a heartbeat, but that's NOT the procedure. More is required: >Participating >You log in with a Fediverse account (Mastodon, Pixelfed, GoToSocial, and others). If you don't have one, mastodon.social is free and takes two minutes. For non-techies like me, Fediverse accounts and mastodon.social are non-starters. Too bad. A single email WOULD be great, as you…

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Re: Hacker News but for independent blogs

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Post by cosmicgadget »

1317 wrote: post #81

looks quite nice, but i always find myself disappointed that all the content on the "small web" is just posting /about/ the small web, rather than doing anything interesting on it 14/30 of the posts on the top page are just about making websites

I can say from experience that the small web has considerable breadth. I think what you're seeing here is a product of the small, curated list of sites combined with the recency bias of a feed data view.

You'll see similar results from the various indieweb indexes that primarily use the kagi RSS list from github; this list attracts a specific segment of the blogosphere.

Re: Hacker News but for independent blogs

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Post by zer00eyz »

bookofjoe wrote: post #110
moebrowne wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Making it too easy invites spam. Sending a single email seems like a good compromise to me.

I agree, that would be a good compromise and I would do it in a heartbeat, but that's NOT the procedure. More is required: >Participating >You log in with a Fediverse account (Mastodon, Pixelfed, GoToSocial, and others). If you don't have one, mastodon.social is free and takes two minutes. For non-techies like me, Fediverse accounts and mastodon.social are non-starters. Too bad. A single email WOULD be great, as you…

> For non-techies like me, Fediverse accounts and mastodon.social are non-starters.

For technical people these things should be non starters as well. It is a group of people who should be acutely aware of everything wrong with social media, and many are not.

Re: Hacker News but for independent blogs

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Post by samtheDamned »

RobotToaster wrote: post #65
viermalbe wrote: post #3

Bubbles dev here, thanks for the mention

Any plans to add Lemmy federation? It would be nice to be able to follow it as a Lemmy community since it works like a federated hn/Reddit.

This would be really cool. With the process of allowing fediverse logins it would be nice to also be able to use lemmy accounts since right now those don't seem to work. (That might be related to the HN hug though I'm not sure).

Re: Hacker News but for independent blogs

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Post by Shank »

mindtricks wrote: post #101
viermalbe wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bubbles dev here, I've heard you loud and clear and follow the discussion closely. I will change the default behaviour to open links in the same tab like on HN or Lobsters soon. But first the HN visitor wave needs to calm down.

So many comments debating the philosophy around this. I like it when these type of sites open a new tab for me. Is there a way to just code in a toggle between the two link opening types?

You can set a user preference to open in a new tab. The reverse is not true.

Re: Hacker News but for independent blogs

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Post by kwar13 »

rvba wrote: post #89

Ao refreshing that new links open in new windows - such a time saver dor those pf us who open hundreds of windows. Top does not sort? Also "top" is what exactly? All time? Today? How do you defend against brigading?

you might find this little extension i wrote for HN: https://github.com/kavehtehrani/hackernews-savedyouaclick

Re: Hacker News but for independent blogs

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Post by rovr138 »

mindtricks wrote: post #101
viermalbe wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bubbles dev here, I've heard you loud and clear and follow the discussion closely. I will change the default behaviour to open links in the same tab like on HN or Lobsters soon. But first the HN visitor wave needs to calm down.

So many comments debating the philosophy around this. I like it when these type of sites open a new tab for me. Is there a way to just code in a toggle between the two link opening types?

I like that in Kagi I can set this as an option.

Default, on the same tab (since browsers have options around this), but allow users to select if they want it on a new tab/window.

Re: Hacker News but for independent blogs

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Post by Finnucane »

viermalbe wrote: post #98
Finnucane wrote: post #93

It's not stated explicitly, but I would assume that 'independent' blog means no Substack, no Medium, etc? Is that the case?

Independent does not mean self-hosted. Blog platforms are ok if the content is not monetized, no adverts, no paywalls, no self-marketing. For full criteria see the FAQs.

Isn't the whole point of Substack, etc. monetization, one way or another? Maybe I'm just a cranky old man, but that to me goes against 'independent'. But then, I'm not just old enough to remember when blogs weren't monetized, but remembering perusing Factsheet Five to see if there were any interesting new zines to trade with. Maybe you could mark the Substack blogs with a little swastika like an asterisk.

Re: Hacker News but for independent blogs

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Post by rsolva »

rirze wrote: post #90
rsolva wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do NOT consider the Fediverse and the myriads of implementations of it to be social media, but rather a social web. More like websites with the abilities to communicate and interact in different and interesting ways. Social media is dead, and has been for a while. Many use it still, but it is not primarily social. The social part was mainly a ploy to get peoples attention and then badly abusing it in ever more crea…

To me, social web == social media. I don't use Facebook but use it for auth when I have no other option. Even worse, I don't want an external service federating my identity when I can avoid it. We have all heard of people getting locked out in cases where Google decided to ban a user from their platform. I'm never trusting an external provider again.

Exactly! It is so empowering to host my own instance at home and own my own identity online, using GoToSocial.
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