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Any other form of communication – email, IMs, phones etc. If you're not having a conversation but just "like" each other's photos it's not "maintaining a remote

Any other form of communication – email, IMs, phones etc. If you're not having a conversation but just "like" each other's photos it's not "maintaining a remote friendship" anyway.

zerr 7y ago
Passively receiving some updates, i.e. where they've checked in, some new photos, posts/comments, etc... is also useful I think.
- megous 7y ago
  Blogs used to be/are good for that.
- tadzik_ 7y ago
  Yeah, good point. I often find myself wanting to follow what some people are up to (friends or not), and it's always frustrating how it requires you to be a part of a certain platform to do that – you can't follow anyone's instagram, facebook, twitter etc without an account, and even then you still need to go on instagram/facebook/twitter to actually check it out. I recently created myself a Pixelfed (a federated instagram, basically) and was pleasantly surprised how my profile has a plain, old RSS feed, so that anyone can "track" me without ever visiting a website (which is something that ActivityPub itself also allows, but AP still forces you to be a part of the "system", so to say). I'd much prefer that kind of Federated world, but I don't see how we can get there in any other way than spreading awareness about it and basically nagging our friends (at the risk of isolating ourselves) – “I wish I could follow your adventures and thoughts, but I don't want a facebook account”. This of course requires a critical mass for basically each person, and probably a way of automatically updating the locked-in platforms (for each post you push to pixelfed/blog it updates your instagram/facebook) so that the ones who take a step out don't need to leave their locked-in friends behind.
  - ubercow13 7y ago
    How is using ActivityPub any more being part of the system than having to use the RSS 'system'?
    - tadzik_ 7y ago
      ActivityPub requires an account on a server of some sort. RSS is client-only, so the "friction" is much lower. Of all the people who listen to podcasts through some kind of an app, how many of them have created an account anywhere?
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raverbashing 7y ago
None are passive

Any other form of communication – email, IMs, phones etc. If you're not having a conversation but just "like" each other's photos it's not "maintaining a remote friendship" anyway.

zerr 7y ago

Passively receiving some updates, i.e. where they've checked in, some new photos, posts/comments, etc... is also useful I think.

megous 7y ago
Blogs used to be/are good for that.
tadzik_ 7y ago
Yeah, good point. I often find myself wanting to follow what some people are up to (friends or not), and it's always frustrating how it requires you to be a part of a certain platform to do that – you can't follow anyone's instagram, facebook, twitter etc without an account, and even then you still need to go on instagram/facebook/twitter to actually check it out. I recently created myself a Pixelfed (a federated instagram, basically) and was pleasantly surprised how my profile has a plain, old RSS feed, so that anyone can "track" me without ever visiting a website (which is something that ActivityPub itself also allows, but AP still forces you to be a part of the "system", so to say). I'd much prefer that kind of Federated world, but I don't see how we can get there in any other way than spreading awareness about it and basically nagging our friends (at the risk of isolating ourselves) – “I wish I could follow your adventures and thoughts, but I don't want a facebook account”. This of course requires a critical mass for basically each person, and probably a way of automatically updating the locked-in platforms (for each post you push to pixelfed/blog it updates your instagram/facebook) so that the ones who take a step out don't need to leave their locked-in friends behind.
- ubercow13 7y ago
  How is using ActivityPub any more being part of the system than having to use the RSS 'system'?
  - tadzik_ 7y ago
    ActivityPub requires an account on a server of some sort. RSS is client-only, so the "friction" is much lower. Of all the people who listen to podcasts through some kind of an app, how many of them have created an account anywhere?
    - deleted 7y ago
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raverbashing 7y ago

None are passive