hyped blogging

but you can't just dump text over http and expect people to read it

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