cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/53757573
Two months ago, I made this post:
https://lemmy.world/post/50855395
In this community, about potentially either “colonizing”, or forking Squidgeworld Archive (alternative to the fanfiction site ao3).
Apparently, ao3 has recently shut-down for 2-4 weeks:
https://www.404media.co/archive-of-our-own-ao3-down-maintenance/
https://nerdist.com/article/ao3-archive-of-our-own-down-for-two-to-four-weeks/
My question is: Should we consider potentially making a Fediverse alternative to Ao3 / SqWA?
If you head over to the Squidgeworld Archive website, it states that over 2,300+ ao3 users have already migrated over to SqWA from ao3.
(Now it’s over 12,000+ in the last 20 hours ALONE.)
Just imagine how many people could potentially be brought into the Fediverse, if there were a working federated alternative version of ao3 / SqWA.
Or if Fediverse users, instead of creating an alternative, instead commited to “colonising” SqWA, instead.
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The software is almost completely irrelevant. It’s all about the story archive. Given Lemmy’s observed distaste for edgy content, I don’t think a federated AO3-like repo is likely to fly, but I’d love to be proven wrong. It might be preferable to have a straightforward mirror if that can be arranged with AO3.
The real question is who’s willing to help develop this software if someone were to start work on it
What I was thinking was maybe perhaps having a fork of either WriteFreely, or Ghost, so that you get the federation, etc.
but also use the same open source OTW Code software, that both Ao3, and SqWA, use, for the benefits/convenience?
And perhaps, instead of using servers/instances, it instead have each and every profile as it’s own separate mini website, complete with dashboard, reading history, fics, etc.?
I.e. think something similar to how Tumblr handles profiles, but decentralized.
And each profile would interconnected with each other (unless they defederate).
Basically, each of the profiles would be their own instance.
Or something.
IDK.
Apologies if this was written weirdly, I am currently at work.
each of the profiles would be their own instance
So each author would need to host their own infrastructure? I’m not sure I follow
Would something like Ourchive possibly work?
I was browsing various different ao3 alternative sites, and I stumbled upon Ourchive.gay
Which is apparently a decentralized alternative to Ao3.
Plus, they use Mastodon
I’ve been wishing for a federated AO3 for ages 😝
Could maybe start from a fork of WriteFreely or even ibis.wiki. The actual long form reading/writing part probably isn’t the hardest problem, the very sophisticated tagging is, right?
I know that both Ao3 , and SqWA, use the same open source OTW Code software
Oh wow, i didn’t know that! Would that make it easier to potentially make like an actual real federated AO3??
Same boat, but for a Roblox alternative. I’ve already forked JohnMH’s OpenBlox repo but haven’t even wrote code to it yet, and I may consider also forking from the Polytoria 2.0 codebase.
