#indieweb 2022-09-13

2022-09-13 UTC
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aaronpk I really want to add a feature to my site where if I favorite a tweet it will go find all the other tweets in the thread and save those in the post on my site too
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aaronpk Like my own personal threadreader
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[tantek]4 what is a reply chain
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Loqi A reply chain (AKA reply thread) is a list of replies, and replies to those replies, displayed under the original post https://indieweb.org/reply-chain
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[tantek]4 sounds like you want a ... favechain
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[KevinMarks] The challenge is that the definition of a thread depends on which tweet you reply to - you can trace the "previous" tweet upwards but there are potentially forks downwards as even the tweet author can reply to responses to create a subsequent thread
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barnaby aaronpk: agreed re making a “thread reader”, I was considering making a standalone thread-reader/explorer site as a demo. Having something like that integrated into a feed reader would be great
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barnaby especially seeing as twitter’s thread-reading UIs are so abysmal and fragile
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barnaby talking of thread readers, has anyone made an indieweb “follow this thread” function? where you give it a post, and it periodically fetches it and checks for replies recursively
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[tantek]4 [KevinMarks] I think first cut is you up go both up & down thread *only* following posts from the author of the tweet you favorite
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barnaby I saw some discussion on twitter recently about that apparently having been prototyped internally there, but they decided it was too niche to make a public feature
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[tantek]4 sounds like Slack
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barnaby there are a few people I follow on twitter mostly because I want to get updates to a particular long-term thread of theirs
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barnaby but even those often get lost in the rest of the feed, so being able to put the thread somewhere in a feed reader UI would be really useful
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aaronpk i've definitely thought about building that
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barnaby one heuristic for selectively including third-party replies in a thread follow would be to check to see if the original thread author responded to them
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aaronpk nice
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aaronpk only tangentially related, I really need to add support for "Quote Tweets" to my own posts
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aaronpk basically the reverse of expanding the reply context
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[tantek]4 what's the difference between support for that vs a quotation post?
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aaronpk when I author a post I usually post just the link to the thing. i want my site to expand that into displaying the actual content of it
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aaronpk i don't want to have to hand-author the whole thing
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[KevinMarks] I think acegiak built out a pass at this with salmentions
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Seirdy do indieweb.xyz submissions get processed instantly or is there normally a delay?
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[KevinMarks] https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1569784644303822849?t=4A16kjWLJxbVN8-a1IvxWg&s=19
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@textfiles If I + 20 of my closest friends decided to, we could, with pretty shockingly little effort, create a brutally resilient, powerful and effective network of communication either on top of or outside of the internet as it currently runs, and it would SMOKE 1990s internet backbone. (twitter.com/_/status/1569784644303822849)
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[Jamie_Tanna] Seirdy I seem to remember mine being instant, but can't remember if the first ever syndication took some time
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[tantek]4 green computing << Make sure your IndieWeb site is using a service or [[hosting]] that both uses renewable energy, and is not at risk of shutting down due to local climate crisis heat impacts, unlike say Twitter: https://twitter.com/b_fung/status/1569386801994891264
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@b_fung NEW: Twitter was forced to shut down its entire Sacramento data center due to extreme heat, and warned internally that if another data center goes down it could result in Twitter outages for some users, because Twitter is now in a "non-redundant state": https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/12/tech/twitter-data-center-california-heat-wave/index.html (twitter.com/_/status/1569386801994891264)
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Loqi ok, I added "Make sure your IndieWeb site is using a service or [[hosting]] that both uses renewable energy, and is not at risk of shutting down due to local climate crisis heat impacts, unlike say Twitter: https://twitter.com/b_fung/status/1569386801994891264" to the "See Also" section of /green_computing https://indieweb.org/wiki/index.php?diff=83425&oldid=83248
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