Hi friends, I have been working on a service to help get RSS feeds into mastodon, and it's more or less ready for prime time. It lives at:
Basically, you:
1) create an account by sending a message to @admin with the word "help", and clicking on the link you get back
2) specify the URL to a feed, and a username for the feed
3) your feed lives at [email protected], and you can follow it like any other account in the fedi
Blog post here: https://muffinlabs.com/2023/03/09/feedsin-space/
Last night the 11yo broke down the Google Slides middle school Chatroom for me:
1. At first they used a Google doc but the infinite scroll was too chaotic
2. In the slide deck each new slide is one “post”—some all text, some images, some both—
3. They use slides’ comments feature to “reply” to each other’s “posts”
4. This allows participants to easily flip between posts using the slide thumbnail navigation, so they can find the conversations they care about easily
5. He owns the file & if anyone spams it, deletes other people’s posts, or gets nasty, he can revert the file to its previous save state & remove the spammer’s access
6. He did share the file with me on purpose, I think because he was proud & wanted me to see what he’d made
Essentially they’ve created a chatroom with moderation in Google Slides, so they can get around the school’s ban on platforms like Discord. It’s kind of brilliant
“The reason most public transportation is seen as ‘losing’ money is precisely because it charges for trips. If you don't charge fares, suddenly it can't ‘lose’ money. It just costs money, the same as the roads.”
This random comment has given me my new favourite argument for removing fares from public transit.
I just tried out https://followgraph.vercel.app/ and it's a nice tool! It just lists the fediverse users that are most often followed by the people *you* follow.
It won't help you find friends or small-time posters to follow, but I'm overindexed on those right now anyway. It *does* do a great job of finding the thoughtlords and shitposters, which I currently need more of. :)
colin mitchell
Ryan Cordell
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Kevin Highwater
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