MediaGoblin – Self Hosted, Decentralized Alt to YouTube, Flickr, SoundCloud

Re:MediaGoblin – Self Hosted, Decentralized Alt to YouTube,... by corobo on Thursday May 25, 2017 @07:29AM (#14416641)

> an overwhelming number of underwhelming options

I love this phrase, it really seems to catch the problem with all these decentralised projects.

Sure I could try to set up whatever matrix/status/appnet/tent decentralised service of the month happens to be on the front page of HN but also I could just not do that and use Twitter.

The other thing is they all want to take over the entire domain you use them on. Either you have to use a subdomain (which means you can't use your cool [email protected] address) or you forfeit your domain to whatever advert the software brings with it.

Honestly I've just given up with them. I use Twitter, I use Facebook, I use Dropbox and I do things other than trying to run my own versions of those in my free time

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Re:MediaGoblin – Self Hosted, Decentralized Alt to YouTube,... by cyphar on Thursday May 25, 2017 @09:23AM (#14417090)

> The other thing is they all want to take over the entire domain you use them on

That's not true. Many such projects use /.well-known/ to provide the ability to redirect from the root example.com identity to where you should actually go to send things.

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Re:MediaGoblin – Self Hosted, Decentralized Alt to YouTube,... by corobo on Thursday May 25, 2017 @11:43AM (#14417988)

Could you source that? I'm not saying it's incorrect I've just not come across it in these things yet. That'd be the key to getting me on the decentralised bandwagon

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Re:MediaGoblin – Self Hosted, Decentralized Alt to YouTube,... by Arathorn on Thursday May 25, 2017 @02:41PM (#14419195)

Matrix doesn't take over the whole domain; right now you use an SRV record to point to the right place and we're planning to switch to .well-known URLs. source: i work on Matrix.

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Re:MediaGoblin – Self Hosted, Decentralized Alt to YouTube,... by cyphar on Thursday May 25, 2017 @11:32PM (#14421815)

As an aside, what is the current status of identities in the matrix fediverse? Last time I checked it seemed like the centralisation of identities was "punted" on and you have an OStatus/WebFinger-like system where identities are tied to a particular server.

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Re:MediaGoblin – Self Hosted, Decentralized Alt to YouTube,... by corobo on Thursday May 25, 2017 @02:47PM (#14419236)

Ah apologies mate I was thinking of Mastodon when I wrote the original comment

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Re:MediaGoblin – Self Hosted, Decentralized Alt to YouTube,... by cyphar on Thursday May 25, 2017 @06:27PM (#14420648)

NextCloud / ownCloud have federation but the WebDav links are described in /.well-known/. I haven't installed Mastodon so I can't speak to it, but since WebFinger uses /.well-known/ I would be surprised if Mastodon did anything else[1].

[1]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7033#page-8

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