An analogy just came to my mind:
diaspora et al. works pretty much as an RSS feed aggregator with benefits.
The only difference would be that one can also post items that, in turn, will be aggregated by other RSS readers who have subscribed to the same tag. And, that one can leave a comment under the aggregated items.
Huh! 🤔
diaspora et al. works pretty much as an RSS feed aggregator with benefits.
The only difference would be that one can also post items that, in turn, will be aggregated by other RSS readers who have subscribed to the same tag. And, that one can leave a comment under the aggregated items.
Huh! 🤔
So, less social, more of a reading list?
ReplyDeleteHere is the feed reader for my class. tell me isn't google plus like: edu307class.networkedlearningcollaborative.com - EDU 307 Feeds and the new readers let you interact with content right from the screen. Lets bring back the web many small things networked together.
ReplyDeletePat Kight well, it is social in a sense, but everyone is for themselves. Similar to what the world wide web already is. They won’t be any unifying group of any kind, only nodes/pods, which are self-hosted instances of the software.
ReplyDeleteI was more referring to how it actually function, rather than how it might feel. Because, you can make an RSS readers feel like a social network, minute the interaction, and the other way around.
Pat Kight here are some of the differences between what we might expect from it and what it actually is:
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Eric Bright that sounds perfect too me...I was talking to Kevin Marks this morning and he discussed how easy public groups would be from our own websites...private is harder nut to crack.
ReplyDeleteThat's a good point, though also a fairly common feature.
ReplyDeleteReddit, Dreamwidth, I think Wordpress, numerous Static Site Generators (Jekyl, Hugo, Pelican, etc.) have some sort of RSS intake capability.
RSS / Atom feeds are also hugely useful.
The biggest problem I've had with RSS/Atom is that feed quality varies tremendously. That is, how much information, how it's formatted, what boilerplate is / isn't automatically included, etc., vary tremendously by feed.
I've written some shell code to clean up feeds read using rsstail sufficiently to be dumped to a console terminal or xrootconsole session, which took a few days of tracking down annoyances over the 100+ sites I follow from time to time.
This is a general issue with Web content if you're trying to treat it in a structured way (one of my more boring hobbies), which is that everybody's HTML is full of crap.
(Mine, of course, is as pristine and pure as the driven snow, and as blissful as the cherry blossoms in May....)
The idea that you can just turn on a feed of arbitrary RSS/Atom sources ... tends to involve Somewhat More Work.
Edward Morbius great point!
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ReplyDeleteEdward Morbius thank you for the link. 😊
ReplyDeleteI still think the same. hehehe...
Eric Bright I liked this when I first saw it. I'm going on a bit of a submission binge at the Reddit, searching for various terms (see search page below). This turned up, I decided it wanted a permanent home.
ReplyDeleteOne of the disadvantages of RSS is that it isn't intrinsically interactive. Most old-school bloggers seemed to use a feed reader that would allow them to respond / post on given links from the reader directly. I know that Dreamwidth and other blogs offer an RSS reader capability, and the fact that Diaspora and other Federated sites do as well is IMO serious bonus (though I've yet to play with that).
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Edward Morbius I admire your sincere efforts to put all these resources together. It’s not an easy task by any means. Thank you for all you do Edward. You are a great person. All the best to you my friend!
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