#indieweb 2022-02-11
2022-02-11 UTC
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Loqi [indienews] New post: "On Taking Notes and Choosing Tools" https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2022/02/on-taking-notes-and-choosing-tools/
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[snarfed] barnaby++ definitely! similar: https://snarfed.org/2019-11-09_39345
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[tonz] Twitter itself is very broken imo, in Tweetdeck where I only follow a range of keywords and #tags, as well as a few individual accounts it’s doable. Unless they “update” that into a mess as well. For a while I pulled everything I needed in through their API into my own database, but no longer worth it it feels.
# [snarfed] [tonz] some of us still do that via https://granary.io/ or (if you have an API key) https://twitter-atom.appspot.com/
# [tonz] general question, in microsub how would you conceptually describe a channel? Classis feed readers have folders, mutually exclusive. I’ve heard them describe as ‘similar to slack channels’ but I don’t get what that practically means when it comes to feed reading. How would you describe a microsub channel, and its differences to a folder structure?
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# [tonz] [jacky] [aaronpk] to me microsub channels seem the same as folders, so when people say it’s like slack that to me implies they see them different from folders. But I don’t yet grasp what difference they’re expressing in that case. I now organise my folders by social distance (a group of feeds from closest contacts, then wider circles up to ‘people I don’t know but who have interesting blogs’.) what for instance are your choices
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jacky agh I need to work on my formatting but https://jacky.wtf/2022/02/11/20-MVHcT2-E3N
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# [tonz] Thank you [jacky] that helps. From your description I take that your sorting by content type has a frequency and nutrition value dimension it seems, and maybe a context one too (podcasts probably consumed in a different setting, and reading articles is a different type of reading than tweets e.g.) ?
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capjamesg[d] I like that description / classification of channels.
# capjamesg[d] I had never thought about them that way.
# capjamesg[d] I use channels to segment content by category but in practice I just browse my “all” aggregate feed.
# capjamesg[d] My server publishes that feed as a combination of everything and I have set that as the default for my client.
# capjamesg[d] But breaking things up into channels does help for classification.
# capjamesg[d] And I previously had a hook that sent new posts in a channel into a Discord server.
# capjamesg[d] I like having a separate channel for notifications and podcasts.
# capjamesg[d] I’d love to see a Microsub reader with great built in podcast support.
# capjamesg[d] Yep! People deserve the focus in a social reader.
# capjamesg[d] barnaby I’m not sure just yet.
# capjamesg[d] To be honest pocket casts has suited my needs just fine.
# capjamesg[d] But I would like better podcast support in my feed reader because I’m in it already to read feeds.
# [tonz] Yes people focus is why I order by social distance and rename feeds to author names not site titles. Ideally I would like to also have a community view and segments thereof (what are indieweb folks talking about this week, but also what are people in berlin or indieweb people in berlin posting, before a trip there) and one level above that: alerts when a community is suddenly more active, as if something important happened, more like a
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# capjamesg[d] I love that idea!
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