categorille @categorille@tech.lgbt

[A somewhat long #thread about #motivation, #computerscience, #DnD, #knowledge, #rabbitholes and #positivity. I spent almost 3 hours on it, and retoots are much appreciated Click on this toot or any other toot from the thread to start reading it, and please enjoy!]

to make clearer the difference between this social network and mastodon, i think i need to emphasize the distinction between /users/ and /channels/.

As a user, you can follow channels, comment on channels' posts, etc.

But you can also be the admin of one or more channels. As such, as a single user, you could admin your own tech channel, another solo channel about plants or smth, and co-admin a channel about politics, all with your account.

we had this idea like 15 minutes ago so its still very blurry, but i am so fucking hyped by the idea.

i truly love the model of public telegram channels, the downside being centralization.

public telegram channels have (from my experience) become quite a popular form social media in of themselves recently, and i think a decentralized version offering the possibility of self-hosting could be interesting to many people

if you feel like this is[n't] a good idea, i'd love to hear your feedback!

within this social media itself, there is no search function nor algorithm, i.e. new channels can be discovered:

- via forwarded posts
- via browsing the wider internet and seeing that people are advertising their channel, which you can then follow via some kind of handle/id

this means you only get stuff you are interested in, and webring-like related communities take shape via the cross-forwarding of each others' posts

now, this doesn't sound all that different to mastodon, but it's got its differences still

- each channel only has posts by one person (or eventually a few admins), except for the occasional forwards
- the forwards allow the creation of sort of "webrings"
- but with the added advantage of ease of posting (vs. creating a page on your website)
- and with the advantage of notifying your channel followers of new posts

home screen is a list of your followed channels, ones w/ new posts @ the top

quick reminder on public telegram channels and why they are cool:

- you can create a public channel
- as the admin, you can post anything you want there (images, thoughts, links, etc.)
- if you know of other channels, you can forward their posts to your channel and people can follow links from these posts to visit the original channel
- this means you can truly get lost in the exploration of related channels that forward each others' posts
- you can follow each channel

alright i just had an idea

are you familiar with public telegram channels?

(if you aren't read the following tweet but yeah i find their social media model really cool)

how about a version of telegram channels that is decentralized and over the ActivityPub protocol?

do any of you know if such a project already exists, in the works or released? me and a friend just had the idea and i am really hyped about it.

Fig. 1: what it looks like
Fig. 2: its HTML source

ya so this is what comes out of Meteor.js

webapps, webapps

writing code for a JS framework is so surreal to me this is great

also i only had a litre of 5% alc beer but i'm already tipsy as hell cause no resistance to alcohol eee

programming Meteor.js webapps should only be done drunk at 1:30am

guess what I'm doing