2017/Austin/serendipity

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Decentralized Aggregation and Serendipity was a session at IndieWebCamp Austin 2017.

• Notes archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/serendipity
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IndieWebCamp Austin 2017

Session: Serendipity

When: 2017-12-09 15:30 CST

Participants

• Johannes Kuhn (session facilitator)
• Aaron Parecki
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Notes

mechanisms that have existed in the past

• Webring - similar sites can link to each other
• Blogrolls

silos took over the discovery and finding new things

how can we do this in a decentralized way?

http://rivva.de - aggregator

• tracked which blogs were talking to each other
• also aggregates twitter mentions of certain URLs on the site

bloggers.scripting.com

• aggregates different RSS feeds that he follows
• whitelisted list of blogs

How can we help find other people writing about similar things?

"Who to follow?"

• usually not useful
• tom: usually follow people when someone else retweets a tweet

follow-your-nose

• from your followers to people they're following
• potential danger is creating an echo chamber and not finding people outside that

adactio.com/links

• linkblog pattern
• whole earth catalog, an early example of this pattern

ways to submit things to aggregators

• opt-in via choosing categories, e.g. wordpress categories
• automatic keyword search across all posts, might mixing worlds, not what people expect

hosting one that anyone can add to, vs hosting one where only you post to

• e.g. host a linkblog, vs host a hackernews instance

likely that community hubs will be small, because people will want to be self-organizing into smaller communities in response to the growth of twitter/facebook