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Re:Ask HN: What are decentralized Twitter alternatives? by zhte415 on Saturday January 09, 2021 @04:17AM (#25698842)
PMs: Email.

Posts: Blog. [XML-RPC if you wanna email from your phone to your blog. Different post-type or tag for 'like' vs 'post' (heck, invent any 'like' 'like' you like).]

Follow: RSS.

It's all there and decentralised for years, just not in a polished package of a 140 character comment, and likely requires more than 15 seconds of thinking. Actually really straightforward.

Only tricky thing would be SMS but that's... 'depreciated' as a popular feature today.

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Re:Ask HN: What are decentralized Twitter alternatives? by 74d-fe6-2c6 on Saturday January 09, 2021 @11:44AM (#25701860)
With RSS you have to follow explicitely. I like the non-linear composition of the suggested tweets.
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Re:Ask HN: What are decentralized Twitter alternatives? by onpointed on Saturday January 09, 2021 @12:42PM (#25702455)
That's a good point! Could someone (or many someones) provide 'suggested' blogs/posts as a service on top of the existing infrastructure?
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Re:Ask HN: What are decentralized Twitter alternatives? by pharke on Saturday January 09, 2021 @03:13PM (#25704235)
That would be a good idea, provide a list of things you subscribe to and get back a list of things you might like.
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Re:Ask HN: What are decentralized Twitter alternatives? by onpointed on Saturday January 09, 2021 @06:54PM (#25706509)
Or a personalized/generated RSS feed?
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Re:Ask HN: What are decentralized Twitter alternatives? by VoxPelli on Saturday January 09, 2021 @11:11AM (#25701507)
Micropub is a more recent alternative to XML-RPC: https://indieweb.org/Micropub
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Re:Ask HN: What are decentralized Twitter alternatives? by zhte415 on Saturday January 09, 2021 @01:29PM (#25703006)
Hate to reply to myself, but if a webhost could do the above on a 1-click install managed service with a nice UI, it might be a winning ticket for this, Tumblr but better. An ansible or puppet script. UI make very smooth and nice looking, I think that would be a go-er. Where do I apply for funding (/s)?
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Re:Ask HN: What are decentralized Twitter alternatives? by thenanyu on Sunday January 10, 2021 @01:08AM (#25711192)
I fiddled with a toy project that was basically RSS-powered Tumblr. Seems like now might be a good time to pick it back up
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Re:Ask HN: What are decentralized Twitter alternatives? by avian on Saturday January 09, 2021 @04:41AM (#25698973)
> Blog [...] Different post-type or tag for 'like' vs 'post'

See also Webmention for a way to have likes and replies on a blog that behave more like what you see on Twitter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webmention

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