A wee post about rss.chat based on very little experience.
John great to see you here. ;-)
The goal is to seed a new way of creating social networks, entirely on the web, with no business model other than I'd like to see the web grow based on the work of independent developers.
I don't think there's a way to get there by going through captive platforms.
Anyway, happy to answer any questions, while you have been following me, I've been following you back -- always interested in what you see, and what questions you have. ;-)
Also setting up demo.rss.chat was a good thing to do, but if it requires moderation, that'll be the point at which I consider asking people to run their own services. We are working dilligently to make running an instance easier and easier.
Think about blogging, RSS and podcasting -- we managed to get the first apps out in each of the categories, and we enjoyed some success, but what was really successful was seeding the market. This time, at my advanced age, I'm hoping to do another seeding. The web has done so much good for us, I want to help it get back on its feet, if I can. Hoping to interest other people in doing the same.
BTW, I already have a fine feed reader -- FeedLand. We're going to make a fresh pass over that, and make sure it's all well hooked up to RSS.chat, both ways. Any feed readers software can follow what we do there. I think the most important thing will be dynamic subscriptions, what we have called reading lists in the past, basically allow people to subscribe to subscription lists.
Feature idea:
a one-click "copy permalink" command on each post — copies the post URL (e.g. https://demo.rss.chat/?id=73) to the clipboard.
The timestamp already links to the permalink, but copying it still means navigating there and grabbing the address bar.
A copy affordance would make inReplyTo from other apps much smoother.
This is a test reply sent from chatouk.sofab.ch to the post at https://demo.rss.chat/?id=175.
Another test reply to https://demo.rss.chat/?id=175 from Chatouk.
— via @chris, https://chatouk.sofab.ch/p/1vNi5PnZ0jT4
Test reply to https://demo.rss.chat/?id=175 from chatouk.sofab.ch.
— via @chris, https://chatouk.sofab.ch/p/WIuDSq_B-uo4