[HN Gopher] Ping: the atomized social media network
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       Ping: the atomized social media network
        
       Author : ahmedfromtunis
       Score  : 31 points
       Date   : 2024-01-13 18:14 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (ping.hz.tn)
        
       | egypturnash wrote:
       | This is just a static web page, the 'like/reply/re-ping' buttons
       | are just divs. IMHO announcing an ActivityPub implementation when
       | it's not at the point where you can even follow the project's
       | account via AP is kind of premature.
        
       | UltimateEdge wrote:
       | Ping me when it's actually released ;)
        
       | sigmonsays wrote:
       | Someone came up with a name and didn't do much else =P
       | 
       | Sarcasm aside, Havn't we seen that most people do not know how to
       | run their own hardware? I am capable and STILL would not want to
       | due to security, scaling, power, space, etc.
        
       | mixdup wrote:
       | So this is just linkback but over ActivityPub?
       | 
       | Also, this name has already been used in a social network:
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITunes_Ping
        
       | HeckFeck wrote:
       | That social network for music lovers that Apple launched in 2010
       | and then retired in 2011 is back?
        
         | vaylian wrote:
         | I'm still baffled that anyone thought that this was a viable
         | idea. A social network based on your taste of music? Too bad
         | your friends aren't into techno.
        
       | simultsop wrote:
       | The decentralized domain is interesting to observe. I find this
       | try ambitious. But as others state it, technicalities to run
       | something on your own, are not yet just as simple as having an
       | app on your device, underlying factors make it inpersistent for
       | any individual.
        
         | lxe wrote:
         | There are strides in UX around self-hosted domain. Just look at
         | homeassistant as an example.
        
       | amelius wrote:
       | How many bytes/s can be realistically sent by pinging a machine?
        
       | phoe-krk wrote:
       | How does the idea differ from a network of (possibly single-user)
       | ActivityPub instances, perhaps with boosting removed (which is
       | considered a feature)?
        
       | Apocryphon wrote:
       | It's a good idea, and a good name, but I can't help but to be
       | nostalgic about Apple's Ping, the half-baked musical social
       | network that went nowhere. (And for that era in the early 2010s
       | when Web 2.0 and the first app stores were taking off but haven't
       | been quite figured out yet, leading to a lot of silly
       | experiments.)
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       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITunes_Ping
        
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