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   mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Sep-2024 08:32:17 JST mcc

   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

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     kryptec (kryptec@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Sep-2024 08:32:17 JST kryptec

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     • Eugen Rochko

     @mcc This is such a good idea!

     @Gargron is there any chance this might come to mastadon?

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 30-Sep-2024 09:16:56 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @mcc this is a great feature. Also helpful for lists.

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     Rachel Wil Singh ~ Moos-a-dee (moosader@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Oct-2024 09:03:23 JST Rachel Wil Singh ~ Moos-a-dee

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     @mcc I really want my email to be formatted like this, too.

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     Amber (puppygirlhornypost2@transfem.social)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Oct-2024 09:03:28 JST Amber

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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.

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Oct-2024 09:08:28 JST clacke

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     • Carl Muckenhoupt

     @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

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     Carl Muckenhoupt (carlmuckenhoupt@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Oct-2024 09:08:29 JST Carl Muckenhoupt

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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.)

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     Carl Muckenhoupt (carlmuckenhoupt@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Oct-2024 09:08:29 JST Carl Muckenhoupt

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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?)

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Oct-2024 09:08:30 JST mcc

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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.)