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by dfox 899 days ago
If there is requirement to link a github account, then there isn't any kind of decentralization, as github is then the one centralized point.

And well, the original idea of blogs was completely decentralized (“there is this thing accessible through HTTP”) with bunch of ad-hoc API surfaces for metadata and “pingbacks” (ie. back references). Then in the last few years there is Medium.

Bottom line: You are solving solved problem and have some kind of path-dependent view of that problem space that does not really make sense.

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I agree, if you have to use github they have pages.

A better thing to use to be decentralised is ipfs. Which worse comes to worst if your file gets unhosted then do your own node.

Or Nostr would be good and might avoid needing a blockchain (and thus the expense and complexity)

IPFS and Nostr are both brilliant but they have their limitations. The main issue I see for an app like seedling is that by submitting your content you lose control over it. You cannot edit or delete.

Ideally many different hosting options should be supported.

You could create a Nostr protocol with a delete message, but the problem there is of course it would be a "soft delete", since anyone scanning the messages under the hood can see the original. In some sense a regular site is like that (you could see it on Internet Archive, but maybe that is less likely to be done, and it is coming from a secondary source anyway).