Jan Boddez

One of the reasons (I think) I resorted to using “bookmarks” rather than “quotations” for annotating (links to) others’ pages, is that Aperture’s “post discovery algorithm” did not seem to support the latter.

Which led me to assume Monocle wouldn’t display a link or context for quotations. But it seems it does.

(I’ve stopped using Aperture/Monocle quite some time ago.)

Either way, I don’t think this is super important right now. Could be I end up adding a Quotation block to IndieBlocks.

Or maybe Gutenberg should finally make it possible to reliably add inline classes to a elements!

(https://bddz.be/4AV)

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Show threadJan BoddezMar 20, 2024

> I’ve stopped using Aperture/Monocle quite some time ago.

The same is true for my own F-Stop, a more traditional feed reader with limited Microsub (and h-feed) support.

I'm mostly using https://feedreader.site these days, and read feeds inside WP-Admin. It lacks advanced microformats support, but I'm OK with "just" RSS/Atom, I guess. Much like everyone else out there.

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Show threadJL GatewoodMar 21, 2024
@janboddez …is it possible to add ActivityPub and ATProto powers to the interactive layers in the plugin similar to Friends?
Show threadJan BoddezMar 21, 2024

@starrwulfe Wasn't planning on adding AP or so support (I want to keep the plugin "poll-only") but I might be able to do something with how it formats replies.

Like, I've been able, in the past, to recognize and extract "Mastodon URLs" from IndieBlocks' Reply block (on the condition that it's structured just right). And add that information to federated (by the ActivityPub plugin) posts, so that replies show up "correctly threaded" even on Mastodon/the Fediverse.

Of course, there'd still not …

Show threadJan BoddezMar 21, 2024
@starrwulfe … be _real_ AP support. You'd have to follow the account's RSS feed instead, and it wouldn't be real-time, and you wouldn't show up in their follower list.
Show threadJL GatewoodMar 21, 2024

@janboddez yeah, I think that’s why using the official AP plugin is still key. There’s 2 methods I was thinking of but I don’t know how feasible it is being a neophyte to all this:

  • Figure out how Friends does all this as it provides that “other half” functionality where the follower count is shown when polled as well as the “reading the timeline” part of equation along with the boosting/liking/etc
  • Figure out what Bridgy does and make a local process that does similarly by actively translating webmentions back and forth between plugins

    • Again, not sure what’s possible or how efficiently this works but I appreciate any insight you can give and am happy to test whatever ideas you have.