| ▲ | d_silin 6 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||
Federated solutions seem to be the future, after once-beloved provider becomes the crumbling monopoly. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | mikepurvis 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
It's not a clear one-way trip though. The "original" blogosphere of the 2000s was heavily federated with MovableType supporting trackbacks and then later systems automating that further with pingbacks. Ultimately it all fell to spam and hosting complexity though, and now almost all blogs are on a handful of centralized hosts again. Spam/moderation is going to be the biggest hurdle to overcome with any distributed forge effort. It'll likely come down to some kind of web-of-trust/vouching system, but it's delicate balancing ease of access with not making it a slog to constantly manage spam. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | hamdingers 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Has it ever worked? | |||||||||||||||||
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