“The Linux of social media” – How LiveJournal pioneered, then lost, blogging

Re:“The Linux of social media” – How LiveJournal pioneered, ... by treve on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @10:51AM (#18969110)

LJ gave us OpenID, Memcached, MogileFS and Gearman. I was a fan of all of them. Such amazing technologies. OpenID specifically was (to me) such a BIG idea that I was convinced it would take over authentication systems everywhere. On the practical side I was a huge Memcached fan and used Gearman quite a bit too. It really expanded for me what was possible with PHP. Super nostalgic for that time. It felt like a new frontier.

Standards for blogging API's also blew my mind. Metaweblog and Blogger API was pretty awesome.

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Re:“The Linux of social media” – How LiveJournal pioneered, ... by nbaksalyar on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @05:36PM (#18973326)

I still think OpenID is better than OAuth. OpenID was federated, and you could easily set it up on your own server. And OAuth has become just 'Sign in with Facebook' and 'Sign in with Google'.

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Re:“The Linux of social media” – How LiveJournal pioneered, ... by bnf on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @06:01PM (#18973552)

You might be interested in https://indieauth.net/

We support indieauth in vouch https://github.com/vouch/vouch-proxy and have a few people that do use that auth flow.

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Re:“The Linux of social media” – How LiveJournal pioneered, ... by sneak on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @10:57AM (#18969150)

I think you may have misspelled @bradfitz. :)

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