hyped blogging
but you can't just dump text over http and expect people to read it
hyped blogging
Apparently it's not enough to just convert
thoughts -> text/markdown -> html and dump it over https to people's browsers.
Nooo, the interwebs bemoan centralization and the lack of discoverability,
and in true internet form,
dream up a thousand new protocols to keep blogging on life support.
xkcd: standards
Note: not using any of the below
old tech - not very connected
It works, why change it? they say
- rss: designed when people thought XML was a good idea,
people have strong opinions on what you SHOULD put in here
- atom: a protocol upgrade to rss
- webring: sites with links pointing to each other,
traditionally with forward/back in a ring,
occasionally with a central directory
IndieWeb - loosely connected
Self host, but still sort of connect to each other?
Abstract ideas of being "people focused",
no real tech standards.
- webmention: centralized server watches sites,
if watched sites link to you, you get notification based on link hidden in your site
- microformat: overload your site with html classes and hrefs
so it can be turned into super verbose json
- micropub: http/microformat based protocol for content management systens
- syndication: sites directly publish content from other sites, not just a link
Fediverse - connected clusters
Expand beyond blogging!
Social Media!
Does this really make sense for decentralization?
Mostly clones of popular services
- activitypub: the OO people got their hands on HTTP/JSON,
publish / subscribe in a decentralized way(?),
main protocol for fediverse
- XMPP: chat protocol, in XML!
- mastodon: twitter clone
- pixelfed: instagram clone
- peertube: youtube clone
other tech
Sometime derided by the same people as above,
but I think these are truly decentralized,
decoupling content from the serving protocol.
- WebSub: PubSubHubbub, extended rss/atom, push content with subscriber webhooks
- AMP: first step in content first, even if people hate it
- WebPackage: trusted web content bundled together, no longer tied to http!
uses SXG / WebBundle
- Signed HTTP Exchange: SXG, resource with a signature to trust origin,
you know the content was from the domain at some point, even if you didn't retrieve it directly
- WebBundle: resources bundled together