46 replies

1. Florian Schroiff 4 min later

   @zachleat by not having friends

   1. Zach Leatherman 14 min later

      @flori I… refuse to acknowledge this reality 😅

      1. Florian Schroiff 32 min later

         @zachleat you sweet summer child

2. Marijke Luttekes 8 min later

   @zachleat Given the numerous posts that I've recently seen about #OwnYourWeb, #RSS, and discussions on how to reach people beyond social media, you're not alone in this debacle.

   1. ⁂ Fish Id Wardrobe 21 hr later

      @mahryekuh @zachleat Indeed – your friends could follow the RSS feed of your Fediverse account, if they wanted to.

3. elle mundy 8 min later

   @zachleat i guess urls still work

   1. Zach Leatherman 15 min later

      @exchgr I’ve heard of these, interesting

4. Torsten 14 min later

   @zachleat there's a bridge between friendica and bluesky, connecting the fediverse with BS.
5. Jason Garber 15 min later

   @zachleat Thinking about it from an #IndieWeb perspective, is this a use case for a linkblog and syndicating that post from your own website out to your various social accounts?

   1. Zach Leatherman 17 min later

      @jgarber I like the idea but really I think I’m looking for a way to see a post on a social network and then semi-automatically boost from the other networks that the author has posted it to (that I also have an account on)

      I don’t necessarily want the noise of another independent post on my site

      1. Jason Garber 3 hr later

         @zachleat Ah! I get you. Okay, yeah, that’s different.

         Things you’d probably need at a minimum:

         • something linking the “same” post from Networks A…n, and/or
         • something linking the same user’s profiles from Networks A…n, and
         • associations between your profiles on all those networks, and
         • the means to boost those posts across all those networks by any number of means.

         🤔

         Maybe doable? Seems fraught, though.

         1. Zach Leatherman 3 hr later

            @jgarber has me wondering if I actually want a search engine that works with social networks https://fediverse.zachleat.com/@zachleat/111840445908110197

            why didn’t google ever build this

            1. Jason Garber 3 hr later

               @zachleat I can feel my hair turning grayer and my bones crumbling, but the first thing that came to mind was “Technorati.” 😂

               I don’t think that’s quite right, but I swear there were efforts underway to map out just this kind of thing during the heady Web 2.0 days. I’m struggling to remember what it may have been, though.

               1. Zach Leatherman 3 hr later

                  @jgarber now that is a name I haven’t heard in a *long* time. Looks like someone snapped it up and made it some generic news portal

                  1. Jason Garber 3 hr later

                     @zachleat eww gross 😭

                  2. Jason Garber 3 hr later

                     @zachleat I haven’t read this yet, but found it linked from the IndieWeb wiki: https://tedium.co/2022/11/04/technorati-blog-search-engine-history/

   2. theAdhocracy 24 min later

      @jgarber @zachleat And from that neck of the woods, Brid.gy is definitely looking into (might already have?) some of that functionality. I know BlueSky bridges are being worked on their.

      Twitter is a bigger issue because they killed the APIs those services used. Maybe some kind of Zapier or Buffer integration?

      1. Zach Leatherman 1 hr later

         @theadhocracy @jgarber For the record, I’m fine leaving Twitter behind. Not limited to the reason that it was hostile to indiedevs long before Musk came along—definitely not worth building an integration on now.

6. Mike Aparicio 2 hr later

   @zachleat mostly by not posting on Threads/BlueSky/Twitter. 😂

   1. Zach Leatherman 2 hr later

      @peruvianidol my current reality is closest to this 😅

7. Nathan Knowler 2 hr later

   @zachleat Email is the superboost.

   1. Zach Leatherman 2 hr later

      @knowler this post could have been an email!!

8. Dave 🧱 3 hr later

   @zachleat Ehh I've conceded to just doing it all manually and choosing which platform to boost what. The discrepancies between them all is just enough that I don't think an all-in-one is going to be enough. It's why I fell out with those all-in-one messenger apps, you kinda miss out on the native quirks of each platform

   1. Zach Leatherman 3 hr later

      @DavidDarnes Yeah, it makes me want a cross social network search engine that allowed me to find where an author has shared a particular URL on a bunch of networks

      1. Dave 🧱 3 hr later

         @zachleat I was about to suggest making a shortcut to search for URLs but both LinkedIn and Threads make it difficult to get any results at all. LinkedIn can be searched but only using Google, and Threads is too JS to even be indexed 😭

         1. Zach Leatherman 3 hr later

            @DavidDarnes LinkedIn search doesn’t appear to be useful (JS or not). Like it or not, Twitter search was incredible and it looks like none of the other competitors come close

            1. Dave 🧱 4 hr later

               @zachleat totally agree, especially the magic keywords

            2. Liam Bigelow 4 hr later

               @zachleat @DavidDarnes I miss Twitter search 😞

               1. Zach Leatherman 5 hr later

                  @bglw @DavidDarnes same, it was so useful

      2. Cory 4 hr later

         @zachleat @DavidDarnes opt in syndication indicators on blogs that share links out? 😭

         1. Zach Leatherman 5 hr later

            @cory @DavidDarnes this is a good short-term option imo!

            1. Cory 5 hr later

               @zachleat @DavidDarnes could be kinda cool — I’m abusing the cache file @nhoizey's GitHub action generates on https://coryd.dev/links/ to link to the Mastodon post when it's posted (since it uses the link as the key in the cache file), but seems doable for other cases as well.

               1. Cory 6 hr later

                  @zachleat @DavidDarnes @nhoizey speaking of, just added the same to post detail pages

9. muıııo 17 hr later

   @zachleat I quit all other social networks. Didn't really solve the sharing issue though...

   1. Zach Leatherman 1 day later

      @muiiio This seems fair too, there are too many 😭

      1. muıııo 1 day later

         @zachleat I just send them links to Mastodon posts via WhatsApp or Telegram 😅

         1. Zach Leatherman 1 day later

            @muiiio haha better than screenshots!

10. tomwor 18 hr later

    @zachleat You mean services like Buffer? (https://buffer.com/) Sadly there won't ever be free/open-source alternatives to it, because interfacing with the big social networks either costs a lot of money or needs backroom deals (I guess).

    1. Zach Leatherman 1 day later

       @tomwor Kind of! I think in retrospect, mostly I just want a way to organize canonical posts from the original author on different social networks

       1. tomwor 1 day later

          @zachleat Coincedentally this just came up in my feed: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/iconfactory/project-tapestry
          I don't know if they'll include the boosting option, but weaving together different sources into one feed seems to be on a lot of peoples minds lately. They are also very clear about what works and what not.

          1. Zach Leatherman 2 days later

             @tomwor yeah! I had my eye on that one too! I hope they pull it off (with a desktop app 😅)

11. lachlan slowly taming rust 18 hr later

    @zachleat I'm manually copying from here to Blue sky when I can be bothered.
    Not touching Threads with a 10ft barge pole though.

    1. Zach Leatherman 1 day later

       @lachlan seems fair!

12. soaproot 1 day later

    @zachleat My first impulse was Sora, although I guess that's just Bluesky and here, not Threads or LinkedIn. If not using iOS, I don't know whether there is an equivalent.

13. Matthias Ott 8 days later

    @zachleat That is a very interesting question! I usually do it…

    mANUaLly 😭🫠

    1. Zach Leatherman 8 days later

       @matthiasott it works sometimes, every time!