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I agree. An RSS-based social network is a network that you fully own. Unfortunately the subscription experience lacks of some aspects, e.g. engagement with othe

by pedro1976 6y ago

I agree. An RSS-based social network is a network that you fully own. Unfortunately the subscription experience lacks of some aspects, e.g. engagement with other users/author is much harder. We should implement some tools to overcome this. For all the sites that lack of feed support use gap fillers [0], [1] and others. [0] https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge [1] https://github.com/damoeb/rss-proxy https://github.com/damoeb/rss-proxy

nunodonato 6y ago
Well I'm adding extra meta data on top of feeds to add some more "social" aspects. Of course those remain centralized, but every persons' timeline is standard rss so you can read it anywhere
- pedro1976 6y ago
  What kind of metadata do you add?
  - nunodonato 6y ago
    the social features: "likes", comments, reshares (still pondering on all this, not yet implemented)
    - pedro1976 6y ago
      Very interesting, do you already have a placeholder repo, that I can watch?
      - nunodonato 6y ago
        not yet and probably not soon... just dev'ing on my machine for now