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[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (24 children)

So skip the everything else and have a white list of shortcuts only.

Why would you have

https://saidit.net/e/jasoniscool.org/s/flowerarranging

When you could have

https://saidit.net/jic/flowerarranging

E is fine, for external. X might be cooler. Or you could use a special character.

[[:LV:Latvian Link]] on Wikipedia would say "LV:Latvian Link" and link to the Latvian Wikipedia.

[[LV:Latvian Link]] on Wikipedia would say "Latvian Link" and link to the Latvian Wikipedia without letting anyone know.

I suspect a ":" would mess up the URL but a "~" is good for signing your name or a quote or source.

Love,

~ JasonIsCool

[–]wizzwizz4 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (23 children)

But then what Saidit could federate with would be arbitrarily restricted by the admins. You couldn't start up your own site, and immediately be able to access Saidit completely and totally from there, and vice versa.

That's the thing. If jasoniscool.org was brand new, you couldn't start using it straight away. You'd need approval. And what if M7D3 decided that they didn't like you any more? Perhaps your flower arranging crossed some line? You'd practically be excluded from the entire network of federated sites by default, unless you stuck with your saidit.net account.

And what if saidit.net started serving adverts? etc.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (22 children)

Sorry to jump into your thread here, but a federated said it where saidit has power over other instances is not the business.

SaidIt.net would only be able to block other instances from interacting with it, but not other instances from interacting with each other.

Right? I think that's how it's supposed to work.

[–]wizzwizz4 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (21 children)

That is how it's supposed to work.

But, at first at least, saidit.net would be the biggest instance around. If people couldn't spin up their own instance and connect it to Saidit, it would be as hard to get people on that instance as it was to get people on Saidit in the first place – if not more so, since there wouldn't really be an incentive to move somewhere where there's a smaller community. And that defeats the whole point of decentralisation, effectively locking everybody to saidit.net.

So every site needs to support federating to every other site by default. The short-name whitelist thing is cool, and a blacklist is equally important, but the "default" has to be no less than "full access to content and ability to post".

(cc: /u/JasonCarswell)

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (20 children)

So every site needs to support federating to every other site by default.

the "default" has to be no less than "full access to content and ability to post".

Agreed. I'd even be into taking one step further, and having a way for other instances to import SaidIt data/catch up on federated history, so that a community could move to their own instance and not be starting from scratch.

[–]wizzwizz4 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (19 children)

If the federation is implemented well, I don't think this would be necessary; it would show up on the listings regardless of where it was from.

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (18 children)

Thanks for cc'ing me above.

I'm getting tingly thinking this may actually come to pass. Some people like bloodsports. I prefer watching you and /u/d3rr geek out a plan to retake over the Universe with peaceful solutions.

[–]wizzwizz4 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (17 children)

If you want to help this particular cause, you could try to get some of your cult following to follow you on the Fediverse.

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (16 children)

I don't have a cult... yet.

I have to develop my projects more first.

If I forget remind me after I have something substantial to share. A that point I'll have to get set up on all the social media and rewards media and https://restream.io/ or whatever.

[–]wizzwizz4 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (15 children)

It's a shame restream doesn't support any P2P services.