#indieweb 2023-10-23

2023-10-23 UTC
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[tantek] [KevinMarks] either /design or maybe /anti patterns if you can pick a good heading?
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Loqi [indienews] New post: "Rethinking my approach to social media" https://www.ciccarello.me/blog/2023/10/23/rethinking-social-media/
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[KevinMarks] https://pagan.plus/@siin/111280543307154948
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Loqi [preview] [Siin] I've been on BlueSky for 10 minutes and... (An Essay)I get it now. I used to be like "Why can't people just stop using Twitter/Instagram/WhateverTheFuck? If they need social media, why can't they just use Mastodon? Why doesn't Pixelfed get more users...
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[tantek] Bluesky << Criticism: https://pagan.plus/@siin/111280543307154948
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Loqi ok, I added "Criticism: https://pagan.plus/@siin/111280543307154948" to the "See Also" section of /Bluesky https://indieweb.org/wiki/index.php?diff=89934&oldid=89864
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[tantek] That was a long post
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[tantek] [KevinMarks] re: that Siin post, if "Mastodon is a coffee shop", then the IndieWeb to me is my Breville home espresso machine, where I get peaceful contentment from making myself double espressos, and occasionally making coffees for friends who visit.
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[snarfed] Whoa https://pca.st/e1rup9vk
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[snarfed] ^ full episode on POSSE/PESOS
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aaronpk Oh wow by name even, not just the idea
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[snarfed] I'm halfway through, so far it has a sound bite from Tantek and then Cory Doctorow explaining his site's setup
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c​apjamesg Wow!
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[schmarty] the Doctorow clip made me realize that "PESOS" rhymes with "copy-and-paste those"
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[schmarty] also _wow_ his workflow! talk about manual-until-it-hurts!!!
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[snarfed] very. he posted about it back when he started pluralistic. entertaining
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[schmarty] i hadn't heard (or had forgotten) the number of windows and tabs involved.
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[tantek] 👀
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[snarfed] second half has [manton] and Matt Mullenwegg
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[tantek] How are the stats on the POSSE page?
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[manton] Uh oh, now I get to see if the audio clips they used are the best of what I said or the worst… Was kind of worried after the interview was over. 🙂
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[manton] Also shout-out to Bridgy in the article version. Still haven’t ready the full thing yet. https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/23/23928550/posse-posting-activitypub-standard-twitter-tumblr-mastodon
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[schmarty] hahaha, _whoops_, i forgot to choose a replacement GIF provider for Kapowski and gfycat shut down last month. RIP. 🙈
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Loqi ahahaha
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aaronpk aw
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[schmarty] current contenders are "back to giphy" (still owned by Meta, unclear when Shutterstock deal goes through, lousy privacy policy) or "Tenor" (owned by Google, privacy is a joke)
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[schmarty] a bigger issue is: nobody seems to want to post reaction GIFs to/from their own site??
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[schmarty] (no user of kapowski has ever made themselves known to me)
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[jacky] This would be a great reader https://phanpy.social/
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[jacky] [schmarty] you know, I've been half tempted to do so. I'd probably end up starting by doing something kinda similar to what Aaron's done with a base custom set of reaction images/gifs and check my past replies to _really_ see where I'm at and what I use a lot
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[jacky] But this requires _labor_, _time_ and energy!! Lol
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[schmarty] jacky++ hahaha, yes! it feels like way too much work to be collecting these things into a personal store. but maybe that's the kind of tool that's needed?
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Loqi jacky has 9 karma in this channel over the last year (49 in all channels)
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Loqi nice
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[jacky] Yeah and like I'd half would want/need the licensing to be flexible to avoid any situation of Hulu trying to sue because I keep using Schitt's Creek references :smiling_face_with_tear:
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[jacky] (obviously unlikely - but not impossible!)
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[jacky] There's the very likely situation that one starts this and someone else just pulls all of the gifs they've downloaded or ones they've used a lot to build their own corpora
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[jacky] sighs in the woes of metadata on society
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Loqi [indienews] New post: https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/23/23928550/posse-posting-activitypub-standard-twitter-tumblr-mastodon (from https://snarfed.org/2023-10-23_posse-a-better-way-to-post-on-social-networks-the-verge)
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rubenwardy hey that's cool ^
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[KevinMarks] I agree phanpy is great
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s​tarrwulfe Well it doesn't work with the Mastodon Apps plugin for Wordpress. (you know I had to try! 😇)
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s​tarrwulfe But it is a *great* wrapper for my main masto account.
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s​tarrwulfe ++Phanpy
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s​tarrwulfe [edit] Phanpy++
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Loqi Phanpy has 1 karma over the last year
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s​tarrwulfe I like how it slides over long posts and gives them its own reader. Lots of people I follow are using Friendica/Misskey/custom instances where 500 characters is a mere suggestion.
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[jacky] Same. This hybrid view for long posts, you'd think, would be a day one feature in 2023!
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s​tarrwulfe Is there a github here for this? I need to make an issue/request for multi account if possible.
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s​tarrwulfe [edit] Is there a github here for this? ~~I need to make an issue/request for multi account if possible.~~
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s​tarrwulfe Never mind! There's multiple account support in there already. 🥴 \<- didn't click on all the menus.
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