#indieweb 2020-12-02
2020-12-02 UTC
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[chrisaldrich] It could be interesting to see what might have happened if that were the case, right?
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[tw2113_Slack_] i wonder if MySpace has stories yet
# [tw2113_Slack_] nah 😄
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# alex11 MyStories
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# [tw2113_Slack_] I...may have to go sign up for spacehey after realizing it's apparently a legit site
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# [chrisaldrich] spaceyhey++ for allowing one to use both <blink> AND <marquee> in one's profile
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# [tw2113_Slack_] juuuuuust cause https://spacehey.com/tw2113
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# [chrisaldrich] I can't think of any tools that have done it or do it (besides the old FriendFeed, which Facebook bought), but are there any silos that can aggregate a single persons' social media output (via feeds, API, other) into a single stream of content?
# [Raphael_Luckom] what do you mean by "output"? Every social network, including the corporate ones?
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[jeremycherfas] Micro.blog?
# [chrisaldrich] Yup, all of them. Most like Facebook and Twitter no longer have RSS, so one would have to pull data (if at all via APIs). Micro.blog is a maybe for those that use it since they're posting there primarily first and it aggregates everything by default.
# [chrisaldrich] However I do know many on micro.blog who separately maintain other presences/blogs with their macro content and micro.blog is just for their notes.
# [chrisaldrich] I have a feeling that there just isn't anything out there anymore that serves the function that friendfeed did
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# [chrisaldrich] Some of us post to a central website first and then syndicate, so it's easier to follow with a reader from the source. But others are posting only to silos and thus it's harder to get the fuller picture of their posting from a following perspective, or you have to deduplicate portions.
# [chrisaldrich] Here's a concrete example: https://boffosocko.com/2020/11/25/following-zeynep-tufekci/ where I've aggregated a variety of feeds to do this all manually, but I'd prefer a more productized service for those who don't live a more indieweb-esque web experience.
# [Raphael_Luckom] is that a representative case? Because if so, it usefully does not include some of the grabbiest silos, like facebook and insta
# [Raphael_Luckom] The reason that I think it's useful is that if you include the specific silos that make exfiltration especially difficult, you end up doing browser-automation whack-a-mole. If you can decide at the outset to make those specific silos out-of-scope, it turns into a different conversation.
# [Raphael_Luckom] Another way to think about it would be to assume that at any given time, you have API access to _some_ of the outlets that publish a person's work. Then you could work on a way to build a "finder" for each service separately from the author-centric view. then the author-centric view would be their ID on each service in whatever format the finder wanted. When a particular service put up too many barriers, its finder would stop working, which
# [Raphael_Luckom] could be a kind of "graceful degradation"
# [Raphael_Luckom] tbh I'm impressed you're dong it at all
# [Raphael_Luckom] *doing
# [Raphael_Luckom] Are you still interested in instagram because of the people there, or something else? Just curious, I'm in a similar place
# alex11 i wonder if zuckerberg really is interested in the welfare of the founders and about diversifying income or if it really is just, "kill everything that moves"
# [Raphael_Luckom] I haven't been on facebook for maybe 8 years? so I assume it's bad but idk. I do find instagram relatively pleasant. Having just rejoined twitter it's...a lot
# alex11 one thing instagram will do is it won't allow you to scroll feeds without having an account (you can still do it in a private firefox window though)
# alex11 the usual 'sign in for the best experience' crap
# alex11 zuck has to go, he's destroying silicon valley
# alex11 then again it's hardly just him who skirts the lines of ethics
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