Who killed Google Reader?
https://www.theverge.com/23778253/google-reader-death-2013-rss-social
This is excellent. Yes, Google Reader really was a great social network.
Sure, there were plenty of its users that used it as just a feed reader but so many people got much more out of it.
I’ve had lots of fun and good times on many different social networks but there was something unique about Reader.
It was quite clear that Google didn’t know what they had.
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A victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
Expect sarcasm, dogs, puns, sport, beer, cycling, tech, pubs. Sometimes several of these at once.
so it goes.
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Fedizen since Jul, 2008
Here since May, 2023
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As takes go, it's up there with the AI bro saying that website owners wanting to opt out of language model scrapers were being unethical, because they're trying to deny the whole world the transformative power of AI through their own selfish pettiness.
Going to look into using go-jamming as a webmentions service. Firstly, so I can self host and not use webmention.io, and secondly, in the hopes I can hack it to trigger other events based on it’s feed parsing.
E.g. after discovering a new item in my RSS feed and performing it’s webmention tasks, perform my federation tasks.
Instead of doing this when .MD files are added / deleted to my repo.
The local beer and wine shop is under new ownership. I have my fingers crossed 🤞 the new owner is more into their beer and have an appreciation of more styles.
The outgoing folk were a recent convert to the world of beer and we didn’t have very overlapping tastes. There opinions could be summed up by:
American hazy pale juice bombs, omg the best.
Sickly sweet stouts, quite good.
Everything else, meh.
So this will hopefully confirm that a blog note replying to another blog note will be reflected in the ActivityPub thread.
I should also think about extending the action to include deleting the fediverse post if and when a note is deleted from the blog (and then also edits when supported)
So this post is mostly to confirm that my new github action is working.
I’m writing this note, and I’m about to commit and push the change to my github repo.
This should trigger an action that will build the hugo site, rsync the files to the web server, and then federate this newly published note to the fediverse.
I’ll then do the same again with a note replying to this one.
This is excellent: “The spite tower”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wainhouse_Tower
One driving force behind the erection of the viewing platforms was a long-standing feud between landowning neighbours John Edward Wainhouse (1817–1883) and Sir Henry Edwards (1812–1886). Edwards had boasted that he had the most private estate in Halifax, into which no one could see. As the estate was on land adjacent to the chimney’s site, following the opening of the viewing platforms, Edwards could never claim privacy again.
Well, it’s buggy as all hell… Will give it a little longer but so far it has duplicate notes, lost changes, crashed, forgotten settings.
History repeating itself here but I’m just assessing using an android note taking app (in this case GitJournal) to post to the blog from the phone.
Specifically, is the experience frictionless enough that I don’t have to bother configuring micropub?
The Jimmy Hendrix Experience is the only other that springs to mind… But only having 3 albums is a bit of a cheat for this game.
I recently re-acquired the LP of one of my favourite albums, The Argument by Fugazi.
I like the band a lot — but far and away my favourite works of their 8 album back catalogue are this, their final release, along with their self titled debut (often called “7 Songs”).
So this led me to ponder, what other bands have done their best work at their bookends?
Probably makes sense to extend the html token parser to extract the content for the note. Meta tags aren't going to cut it for this use case, especially since there's a solid chance I'll want to post images at some point.
And currently the text that's getting pulled out from the note into the ActivityPub outbox is getting truncated. #TODO
https://trivial.observer/notes/using-notes/
As part of this new blog, my intension is to make heavier use of the Notes functionality. The hope is that it reduces some of the burdon I involuntarily place on myself when writing a new blog post. A mind hack to get me to “just write and post stuff”. History suggests it won’t work, but it’s worth a shot.
This of course does make for even more fuzzy boundaries with the more common “microblogging” on the fediverse.
Booting into a tiling window manager, where everything is accessed via keyboard shortcuts, and you've forgotten all the shortcuts.... Is an experience.
After a long period of silence, a blog post! Nothing much, just dipping my toe back into blogging, kicking the tyres.
https://trivial.observer/blog/back-on-my-bullshit/
Have set up a self hosted RSS reader.
Now the age old problem of finding good active feeds.
Merged upstream Gotosocial to my fork.
All The Conflicts!
