What do folks think about this?
A great new way to collate social media….or an attempt to commodify and control RSS feeds?
I love my RSS feeds (collated via a reader app) and would be fiercely repulsed by any attempted enclosure (as in enclosure of the commons)
two things come to mind:
- You are in a reader, you cannot interact with any of those accounts, only read them, perhaps search.
- ActivityPub has no notion of 'Title' so mastodon posts will all appear in the summary as just the date and time, no hint what it says until you click it.
The second point is interface. For me it was trying to use #Emacs #Gnus to read early Fediverse, and it wasn't feasible.
On the first point, the trouble I have with my Tumblr blog is the Nag-Wall: you can read my post, but as you follow a thread you are tossed out. My teledyn.tumblr.com/rss on the other hand, is fully public, but of course you cannot interact, but you can read it!
I was hoping surf-social was doing the opposite: turning RSS feeds into pseudo-Fediverse feeds to read via any app.
> ActivityPub has no notion of 'Title' so mastodon posts will all
> appear in the summary as just the date and time, no hint what it
> says until you click it.
If you use gnus, you can do something about this. See below.
> The second point is interface. For me it was trying to use #Emacs
> #Gnus to read early Fediverse, and it wasn't feasible.
It is feasible, just. If you're willing to hack a little, check out my blog post:
https://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucecesf/blog/20250812.html
I have an update to one of the functions described there which I will blog about soon (hopefully) but contact me should you wish to see the update sooner.
Ian
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