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.

    • Vegafjord eoOP
      2·
      3 years ago

      Peertube cant subscribe to instances. This is problematic when you are generally interested in content from one instance. For example the thematic instances tilvids.com.

      For a subscriber, theres a lot of clutter. Subscription and profile are the only relevant pages.

    • Vegafjord eoOP
      2·
      3 years ago

      I dont really understand. It seems like Murmuration is more about searchengine indexing solution for small organizations/ people. I dont understand how this relates to a federated subscription solution?

      • smallcirclesM
        1·
        3 years ago

        It is not that. Murmurations is a publish-subscribe mechanism very similar to RSS, but more powerful. With it some group of people create Profiles (i.e. like templates) to describe specific information that other people may be interested in. For example in the case of video platforms like PeerTube and others such Profile might describe a video in great detail, including stuff like genre, actors, producers, plot summary. Whatever you want.

        These Profiles are then used by others to fill in rich metadata on their - in this case - video’s, when they upload them. This can be done in a people-friendly user interface. Upon publishing the video this metadata is then embedded along with it and also posted to the fediverse where it is aggregated by server instances that are interested in the particular Profile.

        Any kind of app can then subscribe to an aggregation instance of choice and receive exactly the content / metadata that they are interested in. They may aggregate all video stuff that is published for a Review app, or they may just be interested in ‘Al Pacino’ actor for a Fan Site.

        So what you have is effectively federated RSS with superpowers :)