i forget who it was that said "a single timeline is unsustainable" (aaron parecki?) but i'm feeling more like the real cardinal sin is publishing to a single profile. i don't mind reading everything in a single view, although making lists certainly helps. it's the publishing that annoys me. i almost never want to send a post to all of my followers. and this goes doubly for replies. i often want to reply within a specific context and only optionally tell my followers about it.
"one account per feed" is a goddamn travesty. an account should be able to have multiple profiles, and a profile should be able to have multiple feeds, and you should be able to follow individual feeds instead of being forced to follow an entire profile.
Oh! Not Fedi, strictly speaking, but there is "Circles" - (circu.li). It's s matrix thing and I've been following progress, but lost enthusiasm when i brought up gplus (old hat here as well) and they said "recursive circles were to hard for them to implement".
Then, what's three point I thought. That's where the power of Circles really comes into play.
Did you see that IMDb thing that guys doing with his #Mitra fork yet? He's gonna keep it a softfork too.
@tallship i'm not really sure what to say to any of this but re: the image attached, i'm increasingly of the opinion that none of these projects are speaking activitypub. they're speaking activitystreams and they use linked data notifications (POST to ldp:inbox). the payloads and their side effects are defined by various per-project profiles that only slightly overlap in some cases
@trwnh@tallship I rather like that you brought up Google+. Sure, it was a large failure, but their decision to require you to put anyone you followed into at least one "circle" was a really smart idea that I really miss.
@kabi@tallship it's not their idea lol, it was diaspora*'s idea to share to Aspects. they called it their "reverse sharing model" where you start sharing with someone rather than following or sending a friend request. the idea being that you get to decide which audiences get to see which posts. and then others get to decide which posts they want to see.
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