Mastodawn

I know I've been pretty quiet for the last month and I should probably post about what *I've* been working on, but first, check out these other cool projects I learned about recently! https://www.patreon.com/posts/other-stuff-150352203

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soaproot Feb 21

@kueda Is https://observ.ing/ federating yet? And if it was, what would that mean? Would it be possible to see new observations (or, perhaps, other changes) in an app like Bluesky (like the way I can see Bookwyrm activity in Mastodon)? Or are they using different lexicons and never the twain shall meet?

(Yes I read the disclaimer about the observ.ing database being subject to being deleted with no warning)

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Ken-ichi Feb 23

@soaproot right now it's using a totally separate lexicon so you would not be able to see all the observations on bluesky... and believe me, you wouldn't want to. We tried that on iNat and twitter way back in the day and it pollutes your social media feed with a lot of generally uninteresting stuff. Bookwyrm reviews happen at a low enough frequency that they fit into mastodon nicely, but I can say from experience that natural history observations probably would not. More analogous to scrobbling than book reviews, imo.

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soaproot Feb 23

@kueda I think my iNat feed (what shows up on my iNat home page) is much more manageable to read than what I assume yours must be. And it isn't super hard for me to imagine that the social features in iNat (the ability to follow people, especially), would fit well into federated naturalist feeds.

Having said that, I don't know for sure how/whether I'd use this if it did exist. But I do read my iNat feed much like the I way I read my Mastodon feed, in case that is a useful data point.

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soaproot

@kueda Oh, and I forgot to say what might be the most important part - super exciting to see what is coming of your Patreon infused existence only one month in (even if most of what you are doing with observ.ing is just kicking the tires and other people are doing most of the work - that's useful and it is not the only thing you've been up to). (To others reading this: support @kueda 's Patreon if you want to support "next gen iNaturalist" or whatever the best moniker is).