I have fond memories of whiling away many hours discovering fascinating new sites on del.icio.us. A fediverse reinterpretation sounds interesting!
Good news. I was thinking about how annoying it was that del.icio.us got bought up and shuttered the other day. There have been plenty of replacements, a lot of which faded away, but I think this is the first federated one. Will we see people spin up open instances for this?
At the moment it is explicitly designed as a single-user implementation, although I’m sure it could be pivoted to become multiuser. I’ve simply set up my own on Glitch and it is working great! -> https://pipesmarks.glitch.me/
Thanks for the information. I’ve not used Glitch before but will give it a go.
It’s just that I thought it would work well with instances based around subjects like books or games - you would then have a “all” feed that would be relevant as well as “subscribed” one for a more curated feed.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
“It seemed neat to me that you could build a social network that uses an open protocol and even has some ability to interact with huge communities of people who are already on software like Mastodon,” says Kolderup.
“I had developed bots that worked with APIs on platforms like Twitter, Mastodon, and Discord, but making software that sits at the same level as the social network itself seems even more powerful and interesting,” he adds.
“It’s built in the spirit of a succession of bookmarking sites that started with Joshua Schachter’s del.icio.us and was carried on for many years by Maciej Cegłowski’s Pinboard,” notes Kolderup.
The open source software — available on GitHub — is in the early stages for now, so it’s only accessible to people who feel comfortable administrating their own websites.
As you create a new bookmark, it will publish that as a “note” to all your followers, making it appear on their own Network page on Postmarks or in their Home feed on Mastodon.
Though the concept of the fediverse has been around for years — Mastodon, for example, was launched in 2016 — the idea recently began picking up steam with more mainstream users in the wake of Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter.
The original article contains 721 words, the summary contains 208 words. Saved 71%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
Isn’t that what lemmy essentially is?
Lemmy is a link aggregator but I bookmark a lot more than I share on here and want them properly categorised in one place for me to sift through in the future, so this is handy.
