I’ve seen this–I’ve been a part of Libre.fm for years, and was sad when the creator shut it down, though I understand the reasons for why. I follow them on the fediverse, so I’ve seen them talking about it on and off for a while now.
They’ve been wanting to reinvent the tools related to Libre.fm, and have been doing things with the small web recently. I hope these projects are successful. Here’s their fediverse account for those interested:
Seems pretty ambitious, but I’m interested to see what comes of it.
is that a hosting platform? Or some kind of decentralized thing? Some of the stuff seems like “yet another hosting service”.
Also I didn’t see anything about moderating. With all that selling and sharing and collaborating, what’s to stop it from becoming yet another nazi bar?
There’s nothing to really moderate, but I certainly don’t want to attract Nazis to the service. A few things will slow down any potential abuse of the service, however.
People will have their own personal websites (paid accounts) which will be public and subject to T&C. That part is very much “yet another hosting service” just one that blocks a lot of IP addresses. Being able to have a public website that blocks that stuff is the unique selling point.
The private parts of the service are designed to be personal with some very limited collaboration only open to other users of the service (free or paid accounts) – those aren’t public and cannot be shared outside of the service.
The goal is to try and help people to maximize their use of the internet in a way that eschews the established ways of doing things.
If people want to sell stuff online I’d rather they did it in a way that blocked AI crawlers with maximized privacy and accessibility and did it all with web standards.
There will be strict T&C over what the service can be used for and by whom. The vast majority of it will be for paying customers only, and I’m going to roll things out slowly. There are over 380,000 Libre.fm users who will get to experience things before anyone else and in almost 20 years of operating Libre.fm we’ve never had a problem, but this does have more possibilities for problems and I’ll be doing everything I can do minimize any possibility that people use this for anything other than the intended goal of letting old school Internet users sell zines and CDs.
hate to break it to you, but any time you have user-generated anything, you have to have moderation. Especially if people can interact with each other. There will be both assholes and nazis and they’ll drive people away if you don’t stop them.
I don’t think we’re talking about the same thing. I’m talking about a service like Google Docs or Basecamp. Private, internal communication.