Looks like I'm starting to get email digests of the Substack Notes threads from folks whose newsletters I follow. That's... undesirable
Oh, huh: I never really used it but I also just noticed that Substack redirects their old Reader URLs to the Notes product.
Noticed mainly because I wanted to extract my subscriptions as an OPML list for my actually-used RSS reader and that seems broken now
If I feel spunky today, I might cobble together a bookmarklet of my own ala this 3-year-old SOPML thingy.
Turns out there's a pretty clean JSON resource listing all my subscriptions, as long as my browser is logged into Substack.
@craigmaloney Yeah, I'm kinda on the fence still. I follow some decent newsletter folks on there, and I don't entirely hate the idea of Notes.
But I am wary of enshittification through awkward expansion into annoying features they hope are eyeball-magnets
@mwl @craigmaloney Yeah, I really wish these things weren't silos. Would be nicer if they were just solid service providers for creators. But I guess that doesn't make the 10x big bucks?
Had a story idea that I'm sure someone has written something like: Magic is just prompt engineering for an always-on ambient AI embedded in the planet that's still running after the high-tech civilization fell many centuries ago.
Hmm, thinking about this whole "copy and paste this URL into the search field of your favorite Mastodon app" thing again.
It might be neat if Mastodon had a conventional search URL pattern - e.g. https://{instance}/search?q={url}
Then, if the remote site remembered my {instance} in a cookie or something, it could optionally more quickly redirect without the copypasta in the middle
(I mean, this is kinda what we had before this ugly modal dialog, but 🤷♂️ )
But beyond Mastodon, I was thinking it might be neato to have a different ActivityPub-flavored site be able to construct a URL for a link that says "Click to reply" - that would link to a search for that page's published Activity in your favored instance's context, from which you could reply or boost or whatever
This feels like a thing someone has to have already done
@ballpointcarrot Yeah, if I understand you correctly, such a URL template could be a property of https://{instance}/api/v1/instance metadata - and that, in turn, made discoverable via Link header or link element
@boris I guess I'm thinking it could be done without an extension?
But I do also think a browser extension (or in-built features) to smooth over cross-server interactions seems increasingly appealing.
Mobile clients are kind of a weird spot though, because that'd be crossing between a browser and a different app - i.e. when you're viewing a page that happens to also interact with the fediverse
@geekgrrl Ohh, I think that https://{instance}/authorize_interaction?uri={url} pattern used by the bookmarklet is what I'm looking for.
This would be for like if my blog switched over to accepting fediverse replies as comments and I wanted to offer an easy button to jump to your instance from one of my posts with the intent to reply, boost, fave, etc
@RobertBarker This is almost the exact sequence of events which led to Catsby here having a bookshelf bed.
Also, I see a couple familiar books in that set 😀
Hahah, no, absolutely not. :blobwhee:
Plex for sharing an LLM between friends
@erincandescent Evergreen post, right here.
@elithebearded @maddiefuzz Yeah, self-surgery on the organization-scale brain will often remove the ideas of what to do 🤷♂️ 🧠
But yeah, I love it when a multi-billion-dollar company rolls into my inbox with a "Want to help ${UNPAID_LABOR_HERE}"
@passthejoe 10000-character limit, over here :)
@passthejoe Yeah, I rarely ever hit the limit though. That's what my blog is for, even if I never post to it
@passthejoe Yeah, I used to blog quite a bit more before, say, 2008. Twitter kind of ate my brain back then though.
@danhon nerdery of the best highest level
@SyntaxErrors Older than no. 1 😅 💀
@joshua But of course, our fumbly little man fingers need the special grips and maybe a way to mount it to a rail so we don't drop it
Like, you know, it is within the realm of human possibility to just not actively build a half-abandoned combination shopping mall / conference center that lets anyone wander in and use it as a venue for complete fuckery
Like, it's not censorship to simply decline to build & hand out megaphones to absolute dipshits
This shouldn't be a difficult stand to take
Maybe, if you have a disagreeable thing to say, the very least I can do is decide not to lend you my Mr. Microphone.
@donaldball @kf He just looked so... stunned.
@dcseifert Every now and then I think I want one of these to run emulators and such and also be the only pocket computer I carry.
And then I remember maybe I don't want to run down my pocket computer battery playing games on emulators.
@davidgarywood @Vaguery Yeah, like building a new thing could be a great opportunity to do a different thing?
@suldrew :oof:
@fishidwardrobe move fast and break things amirite?!
@SamLeibowitz Yeah, like the new thing looks literally like a clone of the old thing, and we know a lot of the problems from that old thing, so some lessons learned beyond maybe colors & button sizes would seem appropriate
@tomjennings I will say that I myself have not received enough literal gut-punches to dissuade me from doing dumb shit with tech 🤣 We could maybe use a little of that (you know, hypothetically speaking)
@evan @erincandescent Yeah, I went looking for a real account of his. But from what I've heard on the Vergecast, he doesn't really hang here much. 😞
Sounds like that bot's at least not objected-to by Verge folks but it's not official. (sigh)
@ashley i don't mean to alarm you but it appears a small panther has infiltrated your house
uff da, my mentions
wasn’t this place not supposed to have anybody using it?