Comment on looking for a fediverse website for hosting a guestbook
CameronDev@programming.dev 1 week ago
How are you going to weather protect the books?
You could easily create QR code (or NFC tags) that linked to a post in a lemmy community.
As for posting opinions without a login, that is a little harder to pull off. Firstly, anonymous internet opinions are usually garbage, so you wouldnt want it to be truely anonymous. You’d be wading through spam in no time.
If there was a way to encode creds into the QR code, such that it autologged into an account, that would be kinda cool, and it might last a little while until the creds were leaked.
A basic (no-auth) guestbook site could be knocked up fairly easily by anyone (give me a week or so and I’ll give you something if you want, you’ll have to host it though), but getting the auth part right is nontrivial.
quarklover123@lemmy.world 1 week ago
yeah, you’re right :v i was just thinking about how i’d filter spam right after i posted this
how could i do this QR code thing you suggested first? i’m lost ;-; i’m mostly a tech noob compared to most fediverse-type folks (though i’m trying to learn)
as for weather protecting, that’s a good point. i guess i didn’t think this through bc where i live it is mostly warm all the time (it rarely rains, except for specific seasons). maybe i should just place the books in places with roofs or types of weather protection
athairmor@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Check out: Little Free Library
Build one of these (you can buy kits if you need to) to house your books.
quarklover123@lemmy.world 1 week ago
ahhh, these are cute :3
quarklover123@lemmy.world 1 week ago
also, doing this on lemmy would have the additional benefit that other people could join my project and have their own posts with their own books :)
CameronDev@programming.dev 6 days ago
If you go down the “Little Free Library” + Lemmy community route, you can easily attach NFC stickers to the books, that point to a thread.
You can buy a bunch of NFC stickers for a few dollars and program them with your phone (make sure you write protect them once written). Alternatively, you could print QR codes onto stickers.
Would be pretty cool, please share the community when you have it setup.