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Microblogging like it's 2009

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For a long time I was critical of any would be post-Twitter than didn't federate from the start, because that seemed like the obvious essential way to bootstrap a critical mass.

But now, I'm starting to feel like there is gonna be some strength in the fact that Mastodon + the broader microblogging fediverse, Bluesky, and Threads are going to come together after developing separately.

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So basically I'm wondering what potential there could be for other networks to develop on their own and then start to federate. Were Bluesky and Threads unique occurrences, or could that happen again?

Thinking about this also in terms of the persistent whiteness of all of these post Twitters. Wonder if any of them has the capacity to fix that, or it's going to take something new, and how that could work.

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It's also relevant to concerns about EEE from Meta. How much are we able to spin off new networks and start anew?

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@sennoma Gotta separate the people from the companies imho

(and I mean that on multiple levels)

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@gabek Just bridgyfed for now, but I suspect that the boundaries will get increasingly permeable.

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@gabek lol - not a fan?

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@gabek Why?

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@gabek fair enough!

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EDIT: Think I'm good, thanks @nyquildotorg & @jonny for the pointers!

I'd like to find a way to automate it so that people on a social media team can fave tweets and those automatically get compiled into a google sheet. I see github has some Selenium X scrapers that could be useful, but none of them seem to have an option to load someone's faves. I guess I could try to figure them out and retrofit this myself.

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@nyquildotorg Whoa, it does! I was taking for granted anything like that was long gone. (Saw a blog post from Zapier that they were discontinuing X support)

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@nyquildotorg Damn this is great because it kinda sorta redeems my choice to get IFTTT Pro when they started charging, for the promise of an eternally grandfathered low rate, even though I wasn’t using it and haven’t used it since… until now!

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@jonny I have never used any of this stuff before, and apparently IFTTT can do it, but I might try this just to learn. (Part of me kinda just wants to learn how to scrape X out of spite.)

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There should be a word for theoretical double booking, when you’ve pledged your availability at the same times on multiple when2meets and doodles

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A few months ago I saw a link to a web app for making trolley problem memes, where you could drag the components in all kinds of wild configurations - anyone know what that was?

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What happened to this app, it was a really good concept https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/40868/daymap

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Some time I should probably do something where I track down all the great apps I noticed over the years that never caught on and deserved better.

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This may be controversial, but I hope the fediverse can catch up to Twitter on features like embedded live video, and Clubhouse style audio chats.

But more importantly, we should be coming up with new stuff on that scale of usefulness. Where can we leapfrog X?

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Some days I'm like, hell yeah we're gonna save the world, and some days everything feels so fuckin insurmountable and entrenched

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So, it's gonna be an anxiety day, I see. Nice, nice

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I wonder how long it would take me to learn programming well enough to be able to make the things I want to work the way I want

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My default assumption is “years and maybe not even then” to get to a point where my average software itch was worth the time investment to scratch

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Getting by without an optimal task management system: mildly stressful all the time
Finding an optimal task management system: intensely stressful until you succeed

This feels like a special case of a general problem https://mastodon.social/@misc/112400509278039901

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Still think we should make a multi-platform microblogging app that scrapes X

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If my theory is true that smoking addiction is a good way to look at people who still use that site - then what we need is a nicotine patch.

And the best one I can think of would be making it so that the best experience for using X, also includes Mastodon and Bluesky.

Given how much the native X experience has degraded, this shouldn’t be hard

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Everyone we’re aiming for with this already has an X account, so you don’t have to do anything but grab the tweet data from a simulated web browser. Seems like this would be hard for Musk to block, and it would be a nice side benefit to make him spend resources to try.

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I feel like every time I see something about "such and such celebrity is a zionist, let's cancel them" it links back to some comment of sympathy and support for Israelis they made on, like, October 10, but elides the timestamp.

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