2014/private-conversations

Private Discussions and Private Social Networks (3pm at https://etherpad.mozilla.org/indiewebcamp )

Early in the web, it was easy to have, e.g., a LiveJournal. As you develop a public persona, it becomes harder to post things which are unfinished
Need a cloud-based place to put notes, etc
Setting up private blogs, sites for small audiences

How do people feel about the security of posting private info on a web site?

Amber: ok if its my own server; not ok on wordpress.org

After setting up Wordpress

limit login attempts
p2 theme. boom, a social network!
custom login. customize what people can see without logging in
more privacy options: set reading visibility to network users, or site admins only
p2 likes: like posts
simple local avatars: upload a picture, user profile, etc.
p2 resolved posts: edited the plugin codes so that the choices are "flag new" and "flag read"
peter's login redirect: send individual users to specific parts of a site (without having to do multisite)
who's online: just what you'd expect from the name! if you add it ot the sidebar, shows who's online whenever you log in
chatroom: live chat. can also add video plugins

can set up wordpress app from iphone to post to this site. when i take notes, i do it through the wordpress app; they all get timestamped etc. works offline, when my phone's in airplane mode it queues them up

you can tag things, install additional plugins to get deeper categorization

what about search? could set it up as a single multi-site
notifications? one of them i check it regularly, as frequently as facebook. and if they need me to look at it right now, they'll text me. "if i got a ping every single time somebody updates something here, i'd go insane". there might be a plugin to set a custom post type or specific tag and you'll get notified on your site. without any code at all you could use IfThisThenThat.

A calendar would be really nice too, but it hasn't gotten that annoying yet. Calendering sucks, but I don't want to share my Google calendar.

(lengthy discussion about multiple identities and pseudonymity)

interesting to think of places that embrace different kinds of temporality

ephemerality
meatspac.es: no usernames, you're represented by a 2-second moving gif, so you need to have an idea of who's there to make sense of it [your hash has a time-based component]. 10-minute buffer. anybody who's there *can* archive that, but it's not the cultural norms. not "private" in that you'd feel comfortable discussing financials or overthrowing the state, but it's a very different feel. it's a community norm to use your face.