Nobody likes standards anymore, everyone wants to create their own walled gardens

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[–]happysmash27 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I think it's a shame that most Reddit alternatives are still centralised. Wouldn't it be great if there was a way to follow subs on multiple sites at once?

Actually, why don't we do that now? Instead of having individual clients for each website, why can't there be one client that can mix in posts from all of them? The APIs already exist, after all. The sorting algorithm for hot could, perhaps, sort based on the upvotes in a post compared to the average upvotes on a post on that site or sub.

I was thinking of writing a Linux Reddit client for when my Librem 5 arrives, but now I am thinking I should write it to not just support Reddit, but support Reddit, SaidIt, Ruqqus, Voat, and anything else I can implement, all in one unified feed.

Such a system could be decentralised even more by allowing one to use an account from one site to post and vote on another. We need to come up with a good standard for this type of decentralisation, but once it's implemented… maybe ping /u/d3rr? Or, at least for SaidIt. Other people would have to be pinged for other sites.

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

Hey man. This sounds a lot like a federated reddit/ActivityPub, which Lemmy is making decent progress on now. I guess they're full blown commies which is turning a lot of people off, but the tech could be good.

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

who still uses the big bulk transformers at the plug should be f'in shot in the foot... make a 2-3 foot leader on that bitch... fucking please

[–]jamesK_3rd 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The author mentions xmpp and it's standard and then goes on and on about how Skype, WhatsApp etc are all walled gardens that don't follow the standard.

He fails to mention that conversations.im exists, that many jabber servers exist, that fully federated services such as ejabberd exist.

Why are ppl such ninnies? Stop complaining about how everyone should cater to you and switch over to xmpp, others Will follow or they'll use mms as an alternative.

Services don't just flourish because they should need to exist. They flourish because there is a need and folks step up and solve the problem. If people would rather use Skype or WhatsApp, that's because they've weighed their own value of their data and found it's meaningless.