Post B0rt7FKxMeGfwOEWcy by Canageek@wandering.shop
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(DIR) Post #AmVex8GE2yLX7k1bNY by mcc@mastodon.social
2024-09-29T22:33:19Z
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So with Cohost shutting down in about 24 hours, a note to every remaining social media site: You should totally rip off the "Following" pane.Cohost had a view where (as alternative to the normal linear feed), it showed everyone you follow, sorted by last post, and you could click to see recent posts. A problem with social media is the more you post, the more space you take up. Cohost "Following" made everyone take up the same amount of space, while still prioritizing recency. A nice compromise
(DIR) Post #AmVex9DmTXz86RtACu by mcc@mastodon.social
2024-09-29T22:34:36Z
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I think there might be RSS readers with a view like this, but I don't use RSS readers, I use social media sites. (And on that note, it's still weird to me that Mastodon/ActivityPub sites don't let me follow RSS feeds. ActivityPub is just Better RSS, right? So I should be able to follow RSS feeds, boost RSS posts into the feed, etc. I know that doesn't work, we could make it work. We could figure it out.)
(DIR) Post #AmVqFIQS5jzNMGfj8a by ChrisWere@toot.wales
2024-09-30T00:45:01Z
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@mcc I've always thought this was a good idea, and am surprised social media sites don't use it more.
(DIR) Post #AmW4vuBJVOEdybnpsO by r000t@ligma.pro
2024-09-30T03:29:31Z
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@mccYou won't see this message, but my desktop client does exactly this
(DIR) Post #AmZvdUrLNpgT0MiRDk by puppygirlhornypost2@transfem.social
2024-09-29T22:46:55.622Z
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@mcc@mastodon.social of course i find out about this view the day they're shutting down, i probably would've used the site a lot more if i knew about this.
(DIR) Post #AmZvdWiYTTqGlgcRnc by Moosader@mastodon.gamedev.place
2024-09-29T22:36:31Z
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@mcc I really want my email to be formatted like this, too.
(DIR) Post #AmZvdWkgLZXksHc97A by typographica@typo.social
2024-10-01T05:17:30Z
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@aRubes @mcc Oh, yes, I get that. I wasn’t so clear. With RSS, the read/unread interaction is much better for articles on a blog or newspaper site, for instance.
(DIR) Post #AmZvdX5x4UYbwFZ8Ge by mcc@mastodon.social
2024-10-01T05:28:11Z
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@typographica @aRubes surely the read/unread interaction is client side
(DIR) Post #AmZvdb2uNkV2ByAl4y by CarlMuckenhoupt@mastodon.social
2024-09-30T00:07:59Z
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@mcc (That's pretty much the default for RSS readers, yeah. I don't know of one that just mixes together all the posts from everyone into a single feed. And now that you've drawn my attention to it, it seems kinda weird that these two tools that serve basically the same purpose, keeping up with posts from sources you follow, have completely disjoint conventions on this matter.)
(DIR) Post #AmZvdbGjYLYgsqdnd2 by kryptec@mastodon.social
2024-09-29T22:49:34Z
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@mcc This is such a good idea! @Gargron is there any chance this might come to mastadon?
(DIR) Post #AmZvdbJDP7Xl0XnmUq by CarlMuckenhoupt@mastodon.social
2024-09-30T00:15:31Z
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@mcc (I guess the difference is probably driven by the underlying tech? With RSS, you are literally looking at multiple separate feeds from different sources, embodied in separate files from separate URLs. The most straightforward way to implement a UI for that is to keep them separated there, too. Whereas the big social media sites are presumably just pulling everyone's posts from the same database. But federation probably complicates that?)
(DIR) Post #AmZvdbUuhctvapH7jM by Gargron@mastodon.social
2024-09-29T23:27:11Z
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@kryptec @mcc Check out the catch up view in @phanpy, a third party web client for Mastodon. It is exactly that.
(DIR) Post #AmZvdcCA6pUnkxVf8q by clacke@libranet.de
2024-10-02T00:03:38Z
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@CarlMuckenhoupt The protocol for the Fediverse before 2016 was literally an atom feed per person, made realtime by WebSub (then PubSubHubbub). ActivityPub is a rewrite and a refinement of that model.There is no technical reason why RSS readers and fedi clients treat feed contents differently, it's all UI convention. As others have pointed out, Mastodon provides RSS feeds out and Friendica can consume normal RSS and Atom feeds.The first fedi server implementation, GNU Social (a.k.a. StatusNet, née laconi.ca), allowed you to subscribe to normal Atom feeds, as long as they had a PubSubHubbub pub.@mcc @aRubes
(DIR) Post #AmfGJIXGYy89orKlVI by Zergling_man@sacred.harpy.faith
2024-10-04T13:49:01.393665Z
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@mcc >but I don't use RSS readers"Why can't I use tools that aren't made for this job to do this job, I don't want to use the tools that are made for the job"nigger
(DIR) Post #AmfGsGZhqQGnsF9KIi by iska@catposter.club
2024-10-04T13:55:50.287Z
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@mcc@mastodon.social that sounds like what every newsreader has been doing for decades
(DIR) Post #AmfN2qkUnwuSgccsHQ by allenu@mastodon.social
2024-09-29T23:59:27Z
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@mcc @enterprisey I wish all social media was like this. Constant posters overwhelm my feed and makes it uh boring
(DIR) Post #B0rt7FKxMeGfwOEWcy by Canageek@wandering.shop
2025-12-03T06:22:45Z
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@mcc That and Google+'s is circles are ideas a lot more sites should be ripping off (in case you never used Google+, circles let you organize people into groups, so you could put all of your role-playing people into one circle, then just click that to see all the posts from those people. You could also use them to send messages to only certain groups, so you wouldn't spam your family with posting about dungeons and dragons, rather than having to maintain multiple accounts)
(DIR) Post #B0rt7GhKIxkwA3hu8O by mcc@mastodon.social
2025-12-03T06:28:29Z
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@Canageek I met my wife on Google+