With Postmarks, social bookmarking is back -- but this time it's built on the fediverse | TechCrunch
With Postmarks, social bookmarking is back -- but this time it's built on the fediverse | TechCrunch
The successor to Web 2.0 bookmarking site del.icio.us is here, but this time, it's built for the open web and the fediverse -- the decentralized
I have fond memories of whiling away many hours discovering fascinating new sites on del.icio.us. A fediverse reinterpretation sounds interesting!
Good news. I was thinking about how annoying it was that del.icio.us got bought up and shuttered the other day. There have been plenty of replacements, a lot of which faded away, but I think this is the first federated one. Will we see people spin up open instances for this?
At the moment it is explicitly designed as a single-user implementation, although I'm sure it could be pivoted to become multiuser. I've simply set up my own on Glitch and it is working great! -> https://pipesmarks.glitch.me/
And it looks like I have it up and running:
Thanks for the information. I've not used Glitch before but will give it a go.
It's just that I thought it would work well with instances based around subjects like books or games - you would then have a "all" feed that would be relevant as well as "subscribed" one for a more curated feed.
Removed the other comment.
Because I think I get the point now. I actually never heard of these services before. And didn’t realize people liked to share their “saves/bookmarks”. Or have people actively follow what they are bookmarking.
It’s super interesting.
It is - I was a big user of del.icio.us and followed a number of people on there, sharing links that would send us off down rabbit holes and the like.
I tend to only share select news and interesting items on here, longer articles might go over to Pocket for a future read when I have time and snippets, articles, images and the like can get shoved over to OneNote (and yes, I am working on replacing the proprietary services with FOSS, preferably Fediverse, ones). Personal links get shared to relevant people on WhatsApp and/or get stashed away in the browser bookmarks but there are still other links that could be shared elsewhere. The tagging system also means that I can resurface older links shared on here (I managed to pluck out a few that weren't that old but I was in danger of losing track of them), so I see Postmarks as being a bare bones handy store for pretty much all the links that are fit to share, especially if I may need to find them again in the future.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
“It seemed neat to me that you could build a social network that uses an open protocol and even has some ability to interact with huge communities of people who are already on software like Mastodon,” says Kolderup.
“I had developed bots that worked with APIs on platforms like Twitter, Mastodon, and Discord, but making software that sits at the same level as the social network itself seems even more powerful and interesting,” he adds.
“It’s built in the spirit of a succession of bookmarking sites that started with Joshua Schachter’s del.icio.us and was carried on for many years by Maciej Cegłowski’s Pinboard,” notes Kolderup.
The open source software — available on GitHub — is in the early stages for now, so it’s only accessible to people who feel comfortable administrating their own websites.
As you create a new bookmark, it will publish that as a “note” to all your followers, making it appear on their own Network page on Postmarks or in their Home feed on Mastodon.
Though the concept of the fediverse has been around for years — Mastodon, for example, was launched in 2016 — the idea recently began picking up steam with more mainstream users in the wake of Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter.
The original article contains 721 words, the summary contains 208 words. Saved 71%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!
Isn’t that what lemmy essentially is?
Lemmy is a link aggregator but I bookmark a lot more than I share on here and want them properly categorised in one place for me to sift through in the future, so this is handy.
remix on glitch? can I edit the html of my page? this sounds like myspace, and I'm here for it
I wrote a blog post about using Postmarks and contributing to the project https://andypiper.co.uk/2023/09/11/bookmarks-in-the-fediverse/