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Would anyone be interested in an RSS social network that allows you to 1. Pull in RSS news streams 2. Automatically generate your own RSS streams from your po

Would anyone be interested in an RSS social network that allows you to 1. Pull in RSS news streams 2. Automatically generate your own RSS streams from your posts (and re-shares) 3. Provides content curation over the RSS streams amongst your friends that are subscribed on the same streams 4. Presents previews with images and scraped data in a 3/4-column summary layout that is easy to skim

bhhaskin 8y ago
There are already protocols out there that do that. Ostatus and Activitypub being two. Some examples of social networks already using them are GNU Social and Mastodon.
- aetherspawn 8y ago
  I dont think any of the above social sites allow you to directly consume i.e. the hackers news rss stream on your timeline
  - dcbadacd 8y ago
    One of the primary issue with these alternative social networks is the lack of good content, RSS integration should honestly be one of their main priorities.
stevenicr 8y ago
I think this could take off... I've been kicking around thoughts on makings something along these lines with wordress + buddypress + bp my home... the trick is curation .. adding option for negative keywords per feed or something.. having other people you could follow or pull an opml into your own profile / page.. maybe it needs to become more like pin boards where people can sort in more general groups, and then make it more visual as well. I personally enjoyed the taptu app for it's visual layouts options with rss.. until it shutdown. RssDemon (premium version - no ads) has been a similar replacement for me with mobile devices. I do think this kind of thing could create network effects easy. I'd use it like a renaissance of netvibes / myyahoo feed pages that were cool back in the day. Now that I think of it, I probably stopped using those because they lacked the visuals, which should be easy to add these days.

bhhaskin 8y ago

There are already protocols out there that do that. Ostatus and Activitypub being two. Some examples of social networks already using them are GNU Social and Mastodon.

aetherspawn 8y ago
I dont think any of the above social sites allow you to directly consume i.e. the hackers news rss stream on your timeline
- dcbadacd 8y ago
  One of the primary issue with these alternative social networks is the lack of good content, RSS integration should honestly be one of their main priorities.

stevenicr 8y ago

I think this could take off... I've been kicking around thoughts on makings something along these lines with wordress + buddypress + bp my home... the trick is curation .. adding option for negative keywords per feed or something.. having other people you could follow or pull an opml into your own profile / page.. maybe it needs to become more like pin boards where people can sort in more general groups, and then make it more visual as well. I personally enjoyed the taptu app for it's visual layouts options with rss.. until it shutdown. RssDemon (premium version - no ads) has been a similar replacement for me with mobile devices. I do think this kind of thing could create network effects easy. I'd use it like a renaissance of netvibes / myyahoo feed pages that were cool back in the day. Now that I think of it, I probably stopped using those because they lacked the visuals, which should be easy to add these days.