#[chrisaldrich]Is it possible to make the people/sites one's social reader is following public? I don't think I've seen any microsub-based readers offer this functionality? I haven't seen as much parity in the older ways of doing this with potentially newer building blocks (See: /lost_infrastructure)
#[snarfed]I've done that manually for a while now, export my reader's feeds as OPML and then translate that into a page: https://snarfed.org/feeds
#Loqi[Ryan Barrett] Sites I read regularly. They’re mostly friends’ blogs and other sites that I
have a personal connection to.
Also see podcasts and other lists.
Thanks to NewsBlur,
RSS,
Atom, and
Fletcher Penney‘s
opml2markdown.xslt,
which I use to generate this...
#LoqiIt looks like we don't have a page for "digital detox" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "digital detox is ____", a sentence describing the term)
#[chrisaldrich]🤔 I'll just leave this here as I know Middlebury have put out some good material on the subject before (They're also an early adopter of A Domain of One's Own) and it's worth looking at how they're approaching the topic: https://dlinq.middcreate.net/digitaldetox/
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#zerojames[d][chrisaldrich] I was thinking about using Microsub to make it automatically. All of my feeds are in microsub and are one query away from being rendered on a page.
#LoqiIt looks like we don't have a page for "blog roll" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "blog roll is ____", a sentence describing the term)
#LoqiIt looks like we don't have a page for "blog roll" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "blog roll is ____", a sentence describing the term)
#[fluffy]ah yeah I have um… multiple ways of doing that
#[fluffy]`@fluffy@mastodon.social` is blog -> ifttt -> twitter -> twitter-mastodon crossposter. `@beesbuzz.biz@beesbuzz.biz` is via fed.brid.gy. `@fluffy@plush.city` is via a Python script I found, posting directly
#[snarfed]capjamesg try bridgy fed if you really care about federating instead of syndicating and don't mind interactions with Mastodon being flaky sometimes. try bridgy (for Mastodon) if you don't care about federating but do care about it being easier and more reliable
#capjamesg[d]Can you elaborate more? What is the difference between federating and syndicating?
#[fluffy]I’m in a meeting right now but I can talk a bit later
#[aciccarello]With federating, people follow your site. With syndicating you post a copy to a separate account
#[chrisaldrich]Hard to follow the joy of that post Kevin, but I just found the greatest domain name for an online personal knowledge management site: https://www.tinybrain.fans/
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#[fluffy]ok I’m back from my meeting. Anyway, my experience with fed.brid.gy vs. syndication is that Bridgy Fed works pretty okay for things but it kind of falls apart in certain circumstances.
#[fluffy]For example, there’s no way for it to reasonably support private posts, whereas my RSS-to-mastodon bridge can at least show my “protected post” shim. Also, bridgy fed doesn’t seem to have a public outbox, it only sends push requests for new content.
#[fluffy]I also wish there were a way for Mastodon folks to subscribe to just the posts they want, instead of my whole site’s updates, but that’s more of a Mastodon/webfinger UX issue.
#[fluffy]I also feel like “here is a new post and a link to it” fits the Mastodon UX better than the attempt to put the whole blog entry into the Mastodon feed.
#[fluffy]That said, at some point I want to put native ActivityPub into Publ and hopefully I can make things work better than my current morass of jank.
#[fluffy][expecting loqi to encourage me into #indieweb-dev in 5…4…3…]
#[snarfed][fluffy] speaks the truth, "works pretty okay for things but kind of falls apart in certain circumstances" is a totally fair assessment
#[fluffy]I’d figure out how to un-jargonily talk about my plans for Publ but I talk about them so much and have no energy to actually do them so I don’t think it’ll be, like, helpful
#[fluffy][snarfed] yeah I didn’t intend it as any sort of shade, like bridgy fed is really amazing for what it does! It just doesn’t do quite what I want 🙂
#[snarfed]eh, if you think about it the right way, it can be a bit like rubber duckying technical design
#[chrisaldrich]Cory Doctorow's 20 Year Anniversary post has some great reasons on why he keeps an archive and has a personal site (hint, he uses it like a digital commonplace book) and has a nice call out to /POSSE.
#[tw2113_Slack_]i find it slightly ironic that Corey talked about blogging for 20 years in a tweet thread
#[chrisaldrich]I find it surprising that he deals with the manual cruft of copypasta of syndicating to Twitter that way every day and that he does it via XML!!!