The idea is that on my hosted rsslounge (http://www.example.com/rss/) I can add
the URL of my friend's hosted server (http://www.myfriend.com/rss). With some
sort of authentication (or not) my instance would gather info from the other.
The most accomplished form of such a decentralisation I know is status.net
(http://status.net/) which is a microblog plateform - opensource clone of
twitter if you want (used by http://identi.ca). On twitter you can register to
other twitter users. With statusnet, on your own hosted instance you can
subscribe to another status.net user. Technically I think this relies on stuff
like OStatus http://ostatus.org/ and/or PubSubHubHub :
https://code.google.com/p/pubsubhubbub/
This is a longterm feature request for a decentralized internet. Trying to
avoid central servers for our web services with for example the Debian
FreedomBox : http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox
RSSLounge is references there as an alternative to google reader :
http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/LeavingTheCloud ... it would be nice to keep
some social/community features when leaving the cloud!
Hope this will spark ideas and interest users and developpers.
Original issue reported on code.google.com by arthur.l...@gmail.com on 23 Jun 2011 at 1:37
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
arthur.l...@gmail.comon 23 Jun 2011 at 1:37