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maegul , (edited )
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Is there any real or serious conversation or work around the idea of a feature-full social media browser?

Basically something like a web browser but for “all the social media” along with useful organisation features too.

For locked down big social APIs, this makes less sense nowadays, but for open alt-social systems, it is likely the most valuable promise of such systems that they can become like the web, reachable through an awesome all-in-one app.

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hamiller_friendica ,

@silverpill I can say the same about Friendica.

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smeg ,

I don’t particularly understand the value of RSS readers at all

Notifications are the value for me. I don’t have to regularly check infrequently-updated sites if my RSS reader pings me whenever there’s a new post. Largely a different use-case to social media though.

maegul ,
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A thought on "moderation bubbles"

A plurality of contentiously incompatible but independent moderation "spaces" ... is the only way in which the internet is good at digesting substantial and contentious topics.

  • conversations on the internet generally suck.
  • On any contentious front, strong moderation can run the risk of "echo chambers".
  • For those willing to survey multiple "bubbles", an interconnected plurality provides a de facto dialectics.

Thus federation for the win!

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maegul OP ,
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Probably not original at all. But I suspect there's something to framing it around "improving the quality of internet discourse" through the emergent dynamics of a federation ... especially in comparison to monolithic big-social.

It also repositions the internet as a broader resource to be used effectively.

And instills independent and contentiously incompatible instances along with widely connected federation as desirable positives for social media and the internet in general.
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maegul , (edited )
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Following communities from has gotten much better

Version 19.4 introduced automatic hashtag-ing (see https://lemmy.ml/post/16585416)

Posts get federated with a hashtag matching the community name.

The important bit is that comments to posts don't get the tags.

Which means you can follow the corresponding tag on mastodon and get a feed only of posts.

EG:

If you're starting a community, giving it a unique enough name could help prevent overlap too.

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maegul OP ,
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A tricky part here is that the community still needs to be followed at least once on your instance for the content to come through. I think

So if a community isn't coming through, I'd recommend these steps:

  • Search for the community and follow it like any other user.
  • Add it to a specific/bespoke list, then remove that list from home (a setting available on each list). This removes "the firehose" from your home feed.
  • Follow the corresponding tag as you would any other

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