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Yep, I agree with this idea. Aggregators and directories should be separate services from the actual blogs, content. If you don't like the censorship/curation o
by snisarenko 6y ago
Yep, I agree with this idea. Aggregators and directories should be separate services from the actual blogs, content. If you don't like the censorship/curation on one aggregator, you can go to a different one.
I started working a little bit on this idea, by creating simple aggregators for mastodon and pixelfed (still thinking about how to improve the discovery/curation aspect)
https://pixelfed.club https://pixelfed.club
https://mastodonia.club https://mastodonia.club
- asaibx 6y agoThis is great. Thanks so much for creating this! There is actually an amazing amount of really good quality content out there, but as everybody on this thread has pointed out already, discoverability is a major issue. I often wonder how one would go about finding a site like the one you made if it hadn't been posted here, though I suppose "aggregator" is actually a decent search keyword that should (in theory) also lead to other good content. Presumably "blog aggregator" wouldn't be a particularly useful search term though.
- Ambroisie 6y agoAren't those services already self-aggregating? The whole point of federated instances is that they exchange and sync their content, or am I wrong?
- snisarenko 6y agoThey are. I created these for several reasons. - Reduce friction for unregistered users to see content. - The instance you use, only aggregates from specific instances of their choosing. You might miss content from other instances. - Work on custom curation / discovery features in the future.
- thinkloop 6y agoAll that's missing now is a ranking mechanism and commenting system.