dansup
Been crazy busy with #pixelfed development lately, I decided to take a break and work on something else for fun. Inspired by an expiring domain, I started building my idea of a bespoke guide to the fediverse. Can't wait to launch this, I think y'all will love it! #fediverse #activitypub 17 comments
dansup
The challenge with making a guide is I'm not aware of every project. So, I built a form service into this that can accept submissions and a dashboard to approve them. #fediverse
dansup
This is more than just a bespoke guide though. We also have a blog, and it's federated, so you can keep up to date with fediverse news without leaving your home feed. Categories, RSS, Tags and other standard blog features included. Anyone can submit content to our blog, though we do curate submissions.
dansup
Anyways, the real magic is easy discovery. People, Projects, Mobile apps and more. A new way to explore the fediverse without having to create an account. You don't even need an account to add or submit things! 
smallcircles (Humane Tech Now)
@dansup maybe I can inspire you with this idea to turn discovery around. Instead of saying "I am maintainer of a list and you can 'PR' entries to it" why not say "broadcast what you have, so that anyone interested in it can easily discover it"? This is the idea of the #Murmurations protocol, a sort of PubSub based on linked data profiles, that would lend itself excellently for federation, and has numerous use cases. https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/federating-the-murmurations-protocol/1701
dansup
@humanetech Exactly! We use something similar for our discovery features. The exception is clients, projects and mobile apps, they remain pretty constant so we maintain our own lists with a schema that is used by the frontend. We also have an open API and we gladly accept changes using our web forms or you can submit a change request via ActivityPub using a specially formatted direct message.
smallcircles (Humane Tech Now)
@dansup I feel this can be a generic #Fediverse service. Anyone can spin up a federated pubsub index server. Everyone can create linked data Profiles of things to subscribe to. And everyone can create an instance of any Profile with stuff they want to publish, which then spread around the fedi and get aggregated by anyone interested in them. This would go way beyond #RSS as Profiles have rich metadata on which to subscribe. Embed Profile snippets in your static site and have #js publish it..
dansup
@humanetech Yes! That in on our roadmap, not just for the generic fediverse service aspect, but also because having the guide offline, or otherwise in your own possession will make it even more useful and valuable.  
Dr. Quadragon ❌
@dansup Looks nice. By the way, I think we need to pool resources for this type of thing somehow. We have a lot of small websites like this, but one unified resource which would serve as propaganda source, a guide, a serverlist, a wiki and whatever else, and which would be internationalized like Wikipedia is.  |
Gregory's Server
@dansup
You only have 6 Fediverse logos in your graphic - wouldn't it make sense to use more rather than using a few multiple times? Great project though.