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David Pierce

For the last six months or so I've been obsessed with POSSE, a decade-old idea about how to mix the best of blogging and social media. For a story and for The Vergecast, I tried to figure out how POSSE could work — and why it might not theverge.com/2023/10/23/239285

An illustration showing many interconnected social networks.
The Verge · The poster’s guide to the internet of the futureBy David Pierce
Oct 23, 2023, 02:27 PM·Public·Elk
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Ryuno-Ki

@davidpierce Have you come across indieweb.org/reacji during your research?

If not, here's another rabbit hole to fall into: WebMention standard (with some parallels to WordPress' pingback for a technical audience).

I'm also missing another advantage of POSSE: branding.

You see, colour palette, typography and similar influences the recall. Something that gets lost when all sorts of sources are meshed together.

indieweb.orgreacji - IndieWeb
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David Pierce

@RyunoKi Ooh I've seen a little of it, but need to learn more. Down the rabbit hole I go!

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Ryuno-Ki

@davidpierce I can't think of a better educated person than @tantek.com - but most likely anyone on the wiki should be able to answer some questions.

Or stop by at chat.indieweb.org/

chat.indieweb.org#indieweb 2023-10-23
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Antolius

@davidpierce love this, especially the personal domain stuff.

Few years ago I was surprised to discover my country gives out a free domain to every citizen.

It's on a .from subdomain of local top level domain .hr & has to be related to your name. For me it comes out as josipantolis.from.hr. Not as cute as .golf, but the .from part is clever.

We're not a tech savvy nation so I think someone set it up because it was cool. It doesn't cost anything & solves the domain acquiring issue elegantly.

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Matt Birchler

@davidpierce This episode was so good! I love that you’ve seemed *onsessed* with this idea for like a year, and it’s awesome The Verge is letting you run with it.

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Lauren Wu (Kayna on TFT)

@davidpierce @aulia I like this idea. I've had my domain for decades but I need a simple way to tie everything together.

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Sebastian Hagens

@davidpierce Yes POSSE works with Nostr, I crossposted this item stacker.news/items/293204 yesterday to the network so different clients also could read it.

- habla.news/u/sebastian@sebasti
- blogstack.io/naddr1qqrrywfnxgc
- yakihonne.com/article/naddr1qq

It’s pretty neat.

Stacker NewsWhy Nostr resonates \ stacker news ~nostrAfter visiting BTC Amsterdam, my head was full of Nostr and I needed to write down my thoughts on why this protocol resonates. Plus I tried to write it down in a way some of family and friends can understand it (giving them a purpe pill). For me, Nostr resonates with many trends and signals I follow on the internet. Plus, it matches many of my own personal values around online privacy and digital autonomy. Nostr can fix the web in a similar way how bitcoin can fix the money system. And try to image when the two merge together. For me it makes sense that Nostr will evolve into a future-proof protocol. - Nostr clients are local-first - Data portability between clients - You really own your identity - Privacy by default - Permissionless - Going trustless - It’s easy and developer friendly - Censorship resistance - Nostr is agnostic and for any data you would like to share - Integrating the value4value model - Backed by a community My full blog explaining each point: https://sebastix.nl/blog/why-nostr-resonates/ It’s still very, very early Compared to a new discovered territory, we’ve just started building small shelters. The Nostrverse is still very small with maybe 100 builders who are tinkering their way around the protocol. This means new clients and features popup every week. As now, many clients (and relays) are suffering from different performance issues. Most applications out there are doing one thing incredibly well. This means you need to use many different applications to understand and feel the Nostr experience. That’s currently how I’m moving through the Nostrverse. For now that’s ok. We need that friction to innovate and drive discovery. There is no freedom without restrictions. I’m sure the future will bring many more great applications with features which will show a completely new paradigm on how the web can work for us: the individuals. My quest on contributing to Nostr As a developer I'm looking for ways how I can contribute to the Nostrverse. Currently I'm maintaining and building on these projects in my spare time. nostr-php - a PHP helper library Drupal module: Nostr internet identifier NIP-05 Drupal module: Nostr Simple Publish Drupal module: Nostr long-form content NIP-23 I also have some other technical ideas: how Nostr people and applications can benefit more from NIP-65 (many people are loosing their contacts if they start using more than one application) how Drupal can be used as a RMS (relay management system for e.g. moderating content) on existing relay implementations If you would like help me out with my quest, please reach out to me on Nostr. My pubkey is npub1qe3e5wrvnsgpggtkytxteaqfprz0rgxr8c3l34kk3a9t7e2l3acslezefe or search for my Nostr handle sebastian@sebastix.dev. [6 comments]
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