boring long xml rambling, torrents, distributed streaming
@lamp @kirbyWhat i've been doing lately is studying all the established open xml schemas and microformats, and trying to ultimately synthetize them into one big xhtml standard, so one page of xhtml or atom might incorporate, xbel(bookmarks / webringts) , spff(playlist), newsml(industry news mark up). or recipexml(some thing i found) rss2 etc. and then i gotta map that to a database. At certain point can't avoid namespaces, but standardizing all that is horribly tedious. no one has to do this, why god
I'mma hit people with excessively semantic xhtml/atom feeds they won't know what to do with. and i hypothothies, will make it easy convert a post, to a blog, to a wiki entry, or news article, create image galleries, audio and videos etc.in as little javascript as possible, while opening up possibilities to 3rd party devs.
And starting with the booru mindset on the outset, is probably the best way to deal with media and gets the most out of SQL, basically media is uniquely identified via the hash, and you can add various tags and metadata to each unique file, so reduce redundancy of storage and bandwith by only having 1 of each image/video/audio and also make all media easy to organize, find and display. So you make a post of a torrent in your feed, it appeals as a 'toot' but then same info attaches torrent unique id of the image, post etc. So now that Movie title is associated with that image and torrent etc. So imagine you see a screenshot for movie, and there's a link under that to the title of movie, a torrent, a movie review etc.could also use activipub+media proxy to do illegal streaming, fun stuff,, Could also use the hash based media identification to deal with spam, harassment etc.
If you have multiple instances using this hash booru system, you can set up alternative sources, like file not available on this server, but hash matches on another trusted server, the source of media is distributed, very difficult to take down.
Why tho? The possibilities are endless, you could do a movie night, host Night of the Living Dead on your server, and anyone who has that movie can just upload at same time. Webtorrent is also a thing tho no sure how that can fit into private tracker scenario