naught101A few months ago someone set up a bot that counted the external links from mastodon and listed the articles with the most links per day.
Anyone know where to find that?
Edit: ah, this was it: https://news.feedseer.com/
Dr. SeltsamI wonder if one could take what @decius described in his post about #feedseer on Medium and build it into the #mastodon server to have the feature decentralized: A mix between a chronological timeline and some sort of recommendation what is popular from it on top.
Just a chronological timeline will be a problem as one misses too much.
Please boost for reach.
https://medium.com/@_decius_/how-you-can-use-feedseer-to-escape-the-algorithm-e09c94170dba
Tom CrossIf you joined #FeedSeer recently, it may not have worked for you. I discovered a backend infrastructure issue that I have now resolved, which impacted users who've joined the site recently. Please give us a try again. :)
FediForumThe next demo was:
FeedSeer, by Tom Cross (@decius):
FeedSeer shows you what articles, links, posts, and hashtags are popular in your Mastodon feed.
@decius is coming to #FediForum and says:
"I'm looking forward to providing a speed demo of #feedseer an app I developed for #Mastodon."
Great to have you and looking forward to your demo. We will have a number of demos at FediForum next week, and we'll have more to say about that later this week.
Join us? https://fediforum.org
I’ve added a new view to #FeedSeer that shows you the most popular hashtags in your feed and the associated posts. In my testing it is surfacing some interesting discussions that I wasnt seeing with the other views.
This view is only available to subscribers because I have to cache your whole feed to produce it, but new users will see it during their preview.
I published an updated FAQ for #FeedSeer News that provides more detail about the new views and subscriptions: https://news.feedseer.com/about
I've launched two new content views in #FeedSeer News for Mastodon.
In addition to the original News view, I introduced a Boosts view that shows you the most boosted posts in your feed (that did not contain a link), and a Favorites view that is designed to help you make sure you don't miss posts from your favorite Mastodon accounts.
Everyone will get a 30 day preview of these new views, but they require caching more data from your feed, so I need to charge for them ($25/y). The News view will remain available for free.
I'll be writing more later about why I chose to make these specific views as opposed to other possible representations of your feed. The simple answer is that I think these are the best ways to look at content on a social network like Mastodon, and they've enabled me to see important content that gets buried in the standard chronological timeline.
If you never tried it, FeedSeer is here: https://news.feedseer.com
JB EmmonsIs anyone else here using #FeedSeer? I've played with it a couple of times this week, and it's really growing on me. I recommend it!
FeedSeer scans the posts that people you follow are sharing, looking for articles that are being shared or recommended by multiple users. Then it presents those articles themselves, with each post on that article sorted underneath it, so you can see what stories your follows are talking about and what they're saying about those stories.
Steffen VoßWer Angst hat, wichtige Links in seiner Timeline zu verpassen, kann #FeedSeer benutzen. Das Tool angelt alle Links aus Deiner Timeline und zeigt Dir eine 12- oder 24-Stunden-Übersicht. https://news.feedseer.com/