| 27 Jan 2020 |
 cloudrac3r | I guess I could take .net, I'm not really vibing with it though | 06:25:20 |
 booteille | Feel free to go for what you prefer. | 06:25:41 |
| cloudrac3r | I'm stuck on indecision is the thing | 06:26:01 |
| cloudrac3r | I do have a couple of interesting ideas though | 06:27:42 |
| cloudrac3r | uh, ideas for other things, that I'd like to share | 06:27:51 |
| cloudrac3r | one problem with invidious is that other instances are not very discoverable. you could be a regular user of the site but since other instances are not mentioned anywhere on it, you actually have to seek out the github wiki to find them, it makes difficult for people when it's down | 06:28:38 |
| cloudrac3r | so I had an idea where all the bibliogram servers could send messages to each other, to tell each other that they exist, and then these could either be listed on the front page or there could be a setting to automatically route between then | 06:29:34 |
| cloudrac3r | if I had bibliogram.art it could send messages to bibliogram.snopyta.org saying "yeah I'm here", and snopyta can send messages back. and then they would both know about each other and we could do things based on that | 06:30:35 |
| cloudrac3r | if an instance goes down then it would simply stop sending messages, drop off the radar, and be removed from all the lists automatically | 06:30:56 |
| cloudrac3r | and then there could be like a discovery network thing where instance B can ask instance A "hey what instances do you know about" and then instance B can register those and start broadcasting to them as well | 06:31:48 |
| cloudrac3r | it's an interesting idea | 06:32:05 |
| booteille | Yeah, I miss the fact instances.invidio.us doesn't tell us if an instance got blocked or not (to update Invidition instances list in consequence) | 06:32:30 |
| booteille | So you want to create something like a federation? | 06:32:56 |
| cloudrac3r | the more I think about this the more I feel like I might be reinventing the wheel | 06:33:54 |
| cloudrac3r | activitypub exists but I don't know much about it | 06:33:59 |
| cloudrac3r | I mean yeah this could be taken very far, if instances actually shared the profile/post data from instagram among themselves, we wouldn't even need to redirect the user... | 06:34:44 |
| cloudrac3r | I don't think I want to go that far though | 06:34:59 |
|  Matrix Traveler (bot) joined the room. | 06:43:14 |
| booteille | I don't really know about it but can't instances share an ipfs node? | 07:12:13 |
| booteille | For the content? | 07:12:24 |
| booteille | And concerning instances, except having a list and an api for using that list, I think third parties apps can be enough, for now, to manage that. | 07:12:59 |
| booteille | (BTW, I am thinking one of the key feature interfaces like bibliogram should have is a great accessibility. Most of websites seem to be very hardly accessible for people needing software assistance to browse through the web and thinking about it would be great.) | 07:18:49 |
| cloudrac3r | I was thinking about that too. Once I get back to university I have access to a computer lab with macs with voiceover so I can actually see how Bibliogram and Instagram compare. The problem is that an image-based medium is inherently inaccessible. | 07:19:48 |
| cloudrac3r | I'd like a nice screen reader experience, but since Instagram is all about the photos, which screen readers can't read (except for alt text), I don't know what I want to aim for. | 07:20:45 |
| cloudrac3r | but yeah good thinking | 07:21:06 |
| cloudrac3r | That's a cool bot actually. https://voyager.t2bot.io/#/graph (takes minutes to load) | 07:22:37 |
| booteille | Yeah, you're right. | 07:22:56 |
| booteille | I'll check that. | 07:23:20 |
| booteille | In reply to @cloudrac3r:cadence.moe:8111
I was thinking about that too. Once I get back to university I have access to a computer lab with macs with voiceover so I can actually see how Bibliogram and Instagram compare. The problem is that an image-based medium is inherently inaccessible. But I guess we should try to provide the better experience possible, for the most content we can. So the experience is less frustrating (especially concerning comments where users could understand the context by reading it.) | 07:33:14 |
| booteille | In reply to @cloudrac3r:cadence.moe:8111
That's a cool bot actually. https://voyager.t2bot.io/#/graph (takes minutes to load) Yup! | 07:33:34 |
