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).

https://squidgeworld.org/

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.

  • Teknevra@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    2 days ago

    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.