Tim ChambersI'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
Here is @evan's hashtag proposal: https://github.com/mastodon/fediverse_auxiliary_service_provider_specifications/issues/60
Global hashtag subscription server interface · Issue #60 · mastodon/fediverse_auxiliary_service_provider_specifications
tags.pub is a global hashtag server. It collects public data through a number of interfaces, and provides a followable ActivityPub actor for each tag. https://tags.pub/ There are a few other simila...
Renaud Chaput@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
@renchap Love that: if I can be of help - even just in ideation - happy to be.
Greg Scallan 
@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.
Greg Lloyd@tchambers @evan @Flipboard @surf @newsmast @darius
I like the idea of a tag that could be used with any addressable object: post, photo, web page, feed—at the object level and extendable to tag fine-grain content. Tags could be independently indexed for any use.
A protocol for local and federated tag indexing would then be a valuable WC3 scale standard. One challenge would be to defend against tag spamming or gaming.
This might require a protocol for trusting indices and indexed sources.
@tchambers @evan @Flipboard @surf @newsmast @darius
I look forward to reading @evan ‘s proposal:
Evan Prodromou (@[email protected])
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] I started an issue for discussing a #FASP interface for global hashtag subscription services. Hopefully it is clear and interesting! Please comment. https://github.com/mastodon/fediverse_auxiliary_service_provider_specifications/issues/60