Decentralized content creation and linking
Rohan Kumar
seirdy at seirdy.one
Mon Jul 12 19:31:50 BST 2021
On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 03:54:36PM +0000, gemproj at suckless.anonaddy.com wrote:
>For instance you write a log entry with <topic>, post it on antenna
>(gemini://warmedal.se/~antenna/) and when someone posts another log entry
>with a title Re: <topic> your server collects it, parses the first text
>segment it finds until EOF or headline and puts it under your original log.
>Or just adds a link to this response post.
>
>Additional features can be that you have a comment INPUT that takes a url
>to the response, or scanning multiple aggregators.
I think something resembling the Web's Webmentions would be a good
start. With Webmentions, you write a comment on Webpage A on your own
website, Webpage B that has a backlink to Webpage A. You then send a
Webmention either automatically or manually; doing so manually is quite
trivial:
curl -d source="webpage B URL" dest="webpage A URL" "link to website A's webmention endpoint"
Where the link to Webpage A's Webmention endpoint is in a <link> tag of
the <head>. A daemon receives the Webmention, downloads Webpage B, and
checks it for the backlink to Webpage A. If one exists, it accepts the
Webmention.
I have this setup for my static Web site https://seirdy.one/; Hugo pulls
in Webmentions from my self-hosted endpoint for each page. Some people
also have an input form on their pages for submitting backlinks as
Webmentions.
For Gemini, we could do something more basic. Gemini capsules could
expose an endpoint; this can be parsed from a page in a manner similar
to the gmnisub approach, by matching a string on a page. Perhaps a
Gemini hyperlink to an input form with the text "Submit a backlink"?
Making this multilingual could take a while.
The "manual" approach would be having a user navigate to "Submit a
backlink" somewhere on a gempost to share a backlink via input form; a
backend can check out the source page and look for a backlink. If one is
found, the Gemlog "builder" can add these backlinks to a "Mentions"
section. An automatic approach could have a Gemlog "builder"
automatically check each linked page for a "Submit a backlink" URL (or
any of its translations) and auto-submit backlinks.
--
/Seirdy
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