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@luis_in_brief @atomicpoet @surf @ben 100%! Feed reading has always been a second class citizen on the web which is a shame.
@luis_in_brief @atomicpoet @surf @ben Further to this: I think that feeds are to the social web as websites are to the web.
There are a variety of feed categories emerging on the social web which I'm really excited about:
- News feeds
- Hashtag feeds
- RSS feeds
- Podcast feeds
- Photo feeds
- Video feeds
- Group/community feeds
- Q&A/forum feeds
- Magazine feeds from Flipboard
- Personalized algorithmic feeds written by developers like Mutuals, Quiet posters, etc.
On the social web feeds can be public or private. They can have approved contributors or enable anyone to contribute. They can be free or have subscription access. They can include posts from protocols like ActivityPub, AT Proto and RSS and they can be federated outwardly using any of those protocols as well.
And what's truly awesome is that they can be readily mixed together into hybrid feeds to match very specific audiences and communities. For example: FilmFeed from @davidimel shows just photos and videos from curated film photographers.
https://surf.social/feed/surf%2Fcustom%2F01jehge3c6f25c4czggc3xy0s8
I think #ATProto kind of has a germ of a good idea. But I think in reality, social identity needs to be decoupled from social persona.
@atomicpoet @mike AT makes those conceptually separate, but the identity implementation (AIUI) is still coupled to the Bluesky legal entity, which is... not ideal. (I've been told they're working on fixing this but of course the proof is in the pudding...)
@mike (nodding vigorously) yes yes yes
(goes to sign up)
@mike This is one of the things I'd like back from the days when social bookmarking like del.icio.us was more popular - fully human-powered link feeds, relaying interesting stuff found by a person @luis_in_brief @atomicpoet @surf @ben @davidimel
@lmorchard This is one reason I've kept pinboard around I have data exhaust from many reading and wanting to hold to a link and the activity around it that automatically feeds out to pinboard. But, I can also see other's activity around that same link.
The old RSS reader Fever allowed similar capability around links in blogs with aggregation. But the tags and who tagged it isn't there, and there is so much helpful info in that tiny slice of metadata.
@vanderwal @lmorchard @luis_in_brief Flipboard is really good at hand curation. People can put posts into "magazines" and share them on the fediverse. For example, here's my magazine "The Insight" which has stories I've read that I found particularly insightful:
@vanderwal @lmorchard @luis_in_brief @the-insight-mike BTW, you can include Flipboard magazines as sources in a Surf feed. We also plan to add the ability to curate posts from Surf directly into Flipboard magazines or Surf feeds.