The mechanism used to actually service publication requests from the person controlling the node is orthogonal to doing the design work to specify the thing and the political/social aspect of getting people to agree to support/adopt it. So, in a word, no.
(Side note: any design that necessarily depended on GitHub Actions or something with equivalent power would be a failure on the goals I've outlined.)
I can see where you're coming from, but just as food for thought, I think this is an interesting angle:
1. many people are able to host their content on github now (or gitlab or otherwise)
2. github (et al) provides a simple way to add RSS to your content
3. github actions provides a simple way to poll and update
Mastodon is very interesting, and it has gotten simpler over the years, but I don't think it is simple enough.
I think the argument is that it should be trivial to host on github / github actions, or anywhere else, just like any other sane static site generator.
Well, yeah. That's pretty much the thesis of what I wrote—hence, "Imagine your corner of the fediverse being reachable at $YOURNAME.github.io." (Are you trying to convince me here of something I was already convinced of? That's what it sounds like.)
The mechanism used to actually service publication requests from the person controlling the node is orthogonal to doing the design work to specify the thing and the political/social aspect of getting people to agree to support/adopt it. So, in a word, no.
(Side note: any design that necessarily depended on GitHub Actions or something with equivalent power would be a failure on the goals I've outlined.)
I can see where you're coming from, but just as food for thought, I think this is an interesting angle:
1. many people are able to host their content on github now (or gitlab or otherwise) 2. github (et al) provides a simple way to add RSS to your content 3. github actions provides a simple way to poll and update
Mastodon is very interesting, and it has gotten simpler over the years, but I don't think it is simple enough.
I think the argument is that it should be trivial to host on github / github actions, or anywhere else, just like any other sane static site generator.
Well, yeah. That's pretty much the thesis of what I wrote—hence, "Imagine your corner of the fediverse being reachable at $YOURNAME.github.io." (Are you trying to convince me here of something I was already convinced of? That's what it sounds like.)