Rosenzweig: The federation fallacy

Posted Mar 5, 2019 2:43 UTC (Tue) by areilly (subscriber, #87829)
In reply to: Rosenzweig: The federation fallacy by ejr
Parent article: Rosenzweig: The federation fallacy

What do you mean by that comment, in the light of the existence of that comment, on the web? Care to elaborate?
Are you pointing out that you can't just comment on or modify or add-to most other people's web sites (duh), or that it somehow isn't possible to publish your own content (write) on the web in general?

(federatable) web overlay commentary/etc

Posted Mar 10, 2019 7:19 UTC (Sun) by Garak (guest, #99377) [Link]

Are you pointing out that you can't just comment on or modify or add-to most other people's web sites (duh),

Actually that sounds a lot like something I recall g+ having deployed a few years back. The ability to +1 arbitrary pages, maybe comment as well. Of course the non-evil way to go about accomplishing that would be to utilize a federated network of such overlay content stored locally or otherwise under the netizen's control. I.e. no need for a centralized (commercial) big player to have control over the data involved (and utilizing every means possible to extract as much profit from access to the data as well as dominating/influencing the implementation details)