On a current episode of You’re Wrong About, Sarah Marshall provided a crisp summary of how the 24-hour news cycle happened. This led me to understand that lots of amongst us do not remember when news was confined to time slots: the 7 o’clock news, the 11 o’clock news, the early morning paper. I believe it might be healthy to bring that back in some type. From the enjoyment I heard in their voices I gather that Sarah Marshall and her co-presenter Blair Braverman feel the same method. When I hear people complain about Mastodon’s lack of breaking news, I believe:”Feature, not bug!”Maybe what the 24-hour cycle has been breaking is us.So when press.coop launched last week I was a bit conflicted. On the one hand, I want to utilize Mastodon to check out traditional news headlines just as I as soon as utilized RSS to do .(Full disclosure: press.coop is run as a public service by hello.coop whose creator, Penis Hardt, is a long time good friend.)On the other hand, when reading Mastodon timelines I’m taking pleasure in not understanding what’s occurring in the world right now.What if you could omit news from the home timeline, put it on a list, and go there when– and just when– in a news mindset? That’s a feature of the Fedilab client, I learned from Keith Soltys.
IDG What would it require to implement the very same idea in the Mastodon
reader I’m developing? It couldn’t be just an extra WHERE condition, could it?Well, really, it could. IDG Issue solved. Now I can
check out news in Mastodon when and how I want, and never ever see it otherwise. IDG If you want that exact same control, you should not have to utilize a specific Android client, or Steampipe client, or any other. There’s a Cambrian surge of such creatures today. The more they can share essential DNA, the much better for all of us.I hope that the Steampipe plugin for Mastodon, which makes it possible for the dashboards I’m building utilizing Steampipe’s own dashboards-as-code system, can provide some beneficial common DNA.
A rule like news only on lists, not timelines, as soon as revealed in SQL, can be used (and therefore not reinvented)by any kind of Steampipe(read: Postgres)client: psql(or any Postgres CLI), Metabase or Tableau or any Postgres-compatible BI tool, Python or JavaScript or any shows language. Steampipe is a flexible component. Its mapping from APIs to SQL can, in theory, provide the data layer for any application. My Steampipe+Mastodon adventure notwithstanding, let’s hold on to that bigger idea. The fediverse is our opportunity to reboot the social web and gain control of our info diets. Given that our diets all differ, it should be trivial for anybody– in any client– to turn on a rule like news only on lists, not timelines. I’ve shown one way it can be minor. Please reveal me others!This series: Autonomy, packet size, friction, fanout, and velocity Develop a Mastodon dashboard with Steampipe Browsing the fediverse A Bloomberg terminal for Mastodon Create your own Mastodon UX Lists and people on Mastodon How many people in my Mastodon feed also tweeted today? Instance-qualified Mastodon URLs Mastodon relationship graphs Working with Mastodon lists Images thought about hazardous(sometimes)Mapping the wider fediverse Protocols, APIs, and conventions News in the fediverse Copyright © 2023 IDG Communications,
