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Written by Mayor of Banjotown on 2025-01-21 at 11:59

It seems absurd that if a person wanted to self-host federated video, images and music they would need to run three different total overkill (for one user) stacks at three different domains to do it

...like, why shouldn't there be a platform where I can just upload a file, and if you visit that file's permalink you get a UI that makes sense for whatever type of file it is? (Internet Archive with just a little more polish, basically. If there's a self-hostable federated archive.org-alike I haven't been able to find it)

I know a million unanticipated issues and edge cases would arise the moment someone tried to implement this but still, again,

what if people worked on new interesting human-scale ideas instead of "[twitter/instagram/youtube/reddit] but open source"

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Written by Mayor of Banjotown on 2025-01-21 at 12:31

:sighs and starts a new repository:

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Written by Mayor of Banjotown on 2025-01-21 at 12:38

not actually starting a new repo right now but definitely dropping the "federated any-kind-of-media portfolio" idea into the rock tumbler that is my brain

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Written by Mayor of Banjotown on 2025-01-21 at 12:56

maybe time to look at Takahe again, I know and actually like django

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