I’m interested in a complimentary federated service for peertube and similar services. One can subscribe to creators and instances. You can’t create independent posts, because it is solely made as a subscription service. However you can comment on creations.

It is intended as a tool to keep track of creators you are interested in, and have a seamless experience with going from one video to the next and be able to post quick comments.

I’m envisioning that this service could be distributed and serverless like Scuttlebutt. That way, there would be no signup process involved. One could then download software/ app for your phone and start adding instances and creators.

To comment, one would perhaps need some verification system, like connecting your app to a user to avoid misuse.

A service like this would act similar to an federated RSS, but with more flexibility.

I believe a service like this would be superior to any subscription solution we have today, that be through RSS, peertube,

I believe this would bring a lot of utility to the fediverse. It would make it far easier to develop new federated projects. And it would be a great gateway into the fediverse. It would make it far easier to interact with content which would make the fediverse look more populated and more exciting.

If you think this is a good idea, say aye in the comments.

  • Tomat0
    6·
    3 years ago

    IMO forking/pushing for an existing RSS reader to easily import federated accounts would be a better approach.

      • Tomat0
        2·
        3 years ago

        Sweet. I’d say the steps towards this end would be:

        • Scouting out a medium-small sized RSS reader project with active development and putting out a request
        • Or forking an existing one, but this requires ability to work with the codebase.

        If you’d like to plan or discuss this further, I’d definitely love to on the /c/fedivangelism chatroom. I feel like it’d be easier to plan that way since it’s realtime.