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   Tim Chambers (tchambers@indieweb.social)'s status on Saturday, 28-Mar-2026 02:45:27 JST Tim Chambers

   • Darius Kazemi
   • Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸
   • Flipboard
   • Newsmast Foundation
   • Surf

   I'm starting to kick around ideas for a #FASP for social feeds. @evan has suggested one for global hashtags, and the #Fediscovery folks are doing one for search. It feels like "feeds" is a missing & @Flipboard, @surf and @newsmast and others have great feeds in the wild now. And I think, correctly me if I'm wrong @darius that the exact new feed format is being sussed out at the WC3. I think maybe the time is right to consider what a Feeds FASP might be. Whatcha think? https://github.com/mastodon/fediverse_auxiliary_service_provider_specifications

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     Tim Chambers (tchambers@indieweb.social)'s status on Saturday, 28-Mar-2026 02:46:43 JST Tim Chambers

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     • Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

     Here is @evan's hashtag proposal: https://github.com/mastodon/fediverse_auxiliary_service_provider_specifications/issues/60

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     Tim Chambers (tchambers@indieweb.social)'s status on Saturday, 28-Mar-2026 03:09:09 JST Tim Chambers

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     • Renaud Chaput

     @renchap Love that: if I can be of help - even just in ideation - happy to be.

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     Renaud Chaput (renchap@oisaur.com)'s status on Saturday, 28-Mar-2026 03:09:10 JST Renaud Chaput

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     @tchambers We will likely think about it ourselves in some time, but we idk if we will have bandwidth for it in the next 2 quarters. We need to ship something before we can start on the "custom feeds" topic, but it's in our minds

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     Greg Scallan :verified_red: (greg@flipboard.social)'s status on Sunday, 29-Mar-2026 00:33:34 JST Greg Scallan :verified_red:

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     • Renaud Chaput

     @tchambers @renchap Yes, would love the ability to have a generic FASP for a global feed service. having a hashtag service, to me, is somewhat equivalent to having a custom feed with 1 source which is the hastag. The challenges really are in the UI: how would a mastodon client, for example, show this a user who wanted to see such a feed? Probably needs to be separate from the current follow model as you don't really want all posts from the custom feed to show up in your timeline.

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     Tim Chambers (tchambers@indieweb.social)'s status on Sunday, 29-Mar-2026 00:35:08 JST Tim Chambers

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     • Renaud Chaput
     • Greg Scallan :verified_red:

     @greg @renchap

     FYI to you both: I think I have a closed, for proof of concept only MVP of a web app of this working today. Am about to test it against indieweb.social to check that it is a functioning FASP and speaks well and securely with that server as a test. If that works will share with you both.