[Murray]I know #indieweb-stream is currently pulling from Mastodon.social, but could I suggest at least adding the indieweb hashtag feed from indieweb.social as well? It's far from a busy hashtag, but I'm seeing far more posts having subscribed to it on that instance than we seem to be getting from mastodon.social 🙂
aaronpkI am going to have to add logic to dedupe posts if I do that. Keep in mind the tag feed reports posts from other servers too so there are likely to be the same post appearing on both the mastodon.social and indieweb.social tag feeds
[Murray]that's not my experience, though, hence the ask 🙂 I'm subscribed to the hashtag (I assume it only subscribes you to posts on your/visible to your instance, and I assume the RSS feed is the same?) but I haven't seen any of the posts that I'm getting on Mastodon turn up here (again, there aren't a huge number, but more than it seems we're getting here 😅 )
[Murray]that doesn't strike me as too strange, as I rarely see mastodon.social users on my feed; there seems to be a big enough "bubble" effect around the indieweb.social and other tech instances that I guess offsets the overall popularity of that server?
[Murray]if dedupe is a major issue (which I could understand; Mastodon does not deal well with duplication it seems) then I'd personally suggest switching to using indieweb.social as a priority, seeing as that instance is more likely to attract people with a relevant interest
aaronpkto be clear, the tag feed on mastodon.social includes posts from outside mastodon.social already, just only the posts that the server knows about. so if I add the indieweb.social feed too, then any posts that get sent to both servers (any post from me for example) would appear twice
aaronpkalso i wish there was a feed with higher fidelity than the RSS feeds. they don't include author information or anything so they are pretty boring looking in my reader
aaronpka feed reader following example.com keeps track of whether it's already seen an item in that feed. but if another feed at example.org shows up and says an item URL is on example.com it treats it as totally different sets and doesn't let it claim a post on another domain
aaronpkanyway, all set. it's fed into https://stream.indieweb.org/ now and should show up in the channel. keep an eye out for strange dupes but i suspect there won't be any
aaronpkbonus side effect is i was able to set the author property in the posts in the combined feed based on the username in the post URL so they show up better on stream.indieweb.org
[chrisaldrich]besides user-based feeds and tag-based feeds, does Mastodon or anything else in the Fediverse offer any useful feeds? I'm thinking that it would be interesting/useful to have a feed of everyone I'm following in Mastodon, which is similar to a feed that micro.blog offers and allows me to leverage the easy follow UI in micro.blog, but have all those easily dumped into a social reader?
[chrisaldrich]Possibly an aaronpk question, but did you see the email foward last week to wordpress@indieweb.org about miklb's email address bouncing and that placing plugins in jeopardy? Just wanted to make sure it got taken care of...