Comment by cxr
4 years ago
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.)