[landhar]

I’m working on an open-source social bookmarking site in Elixir that is API compatible with delicious/pinboard. Its named linkhut and it’s currently able to import your bookmarks from pinboard and browser exports.

The flagship instance is: https://ln.ht

The source code is hosted here: https://sr.ht/~mlb/linkhut/

The documentation: https://docs.linkhut.org/introduction.html

The one thing that I’m working on before releasing 1.0 is taking a snapshot at time of bookmark and index its contents to make it searchable (similar to pinboard’s feature).

[honkdaddy]

This looks cool. An unsolicited anecdote from a former huge delicious/stumbleupon guy, what made these sites awesome for me was the backfill of amazing content that other people had already cataloged. I didn’t share much, I just enjoyed other people’s content.

Obviously there’s a big chicken and egg problem with any social network like that, but I suppose what I’m getting at is I wouldn’t be afraid to “fake it” when you’re first starting out. Maybe scrape links from Reddit, HN, or even an old cache of StumbleUpon?

[hiccuphippo]

There was a time I would only search in del.icio.us instead of Google because the content quality was much better. So if you go this way, please don't fill it with content from botfarms posting to reddit. Keep it to small, well moderated subreddits.

[landhar]

This is definitely something I’ve been giving a lot of thought. I still haven’t made my mind about this but what I do know is that IF I do something like this I would:

- make sure that the data ingested in such a way is tagged in such a way that it is obvious it isn’t organic

- wait until I get a few more features that I really care about implemented (at the very least the archival and indexing of the page bookmarked)

But yeah, I agree that - for me - a huge part of the appeal of using delicious was to see the tags the community had already applied to a bookmark I would submit, and with only a handful of users at the moment we’re nowhere near having that experience :)

[heavyset_go]

This would be cool as a federated social media app. As in, I'd like to run my own server for this with my own users, but I'd also like to share and interact with others' servers and users, as well.