[Chester LUG] https://identi.ca

[robin592 at yahoo.co.uk]

I am simultaneously interested and confused.

How does this compare to something like RSS?

Is that a really stupid question?

:*)


Robin



On Friday 12 December 2014 21:35:34 Ben Arnold wrote:
> Evening,
> 
> 
> What an excellent idea for an "alternative" Christmas meal (not because
> I'm still not hungry) - big thanks to all organisers, hosts & company.
> 
> There was a whiff of interest in "that other Twitter type thing that's
> not" so if thy dear reader is interested, allow me to explain (bore) a
> couple of the best things IMHO.
> 
> GNU Social (formerly StatusNet, formerly Laconi.ca) is a decentralised
> (the site code can handle multiple sites) and federated (one/multiple
> networks communicating by a common message protocol). The most populous
> instance was Identi.ca; it migrated to a new 'engine' PumpIO, powered by
> ActivityStreams, which is also a decentralised and federated protocol.
> 
> What I actually love about it: ActivityStreams means that not just notes
> can be posted. The primary feed (the main column) is indeed only notes
> and images as they're *super* easy to display fully (no reason why any
> other activity can be put there if the site/instance knows how to). The
> Meanwhile (secondary) column is all the other activities; seldom have I
> see anything other than wrote/favourited/deleted a note/image/comment,
> but some more involved community members post other activities. Either
> way, posts use the "actor verb object" pattern:
>   Actor  Verb     Object       DisplayText
>   Robin  write    a note       "Robin wrote a note"
>   Les    post     a picture    "Les posted "River Dee in snow""
>   Stuart shutdown 10.40.21.123 "10.40.21.123 went down"
>   Ben    travel   2C42         "Ben travelled from Chester to Sandhills"
> 
> The display text is a arbitrary HTML string, so "note" could hyperlink
> to the note itself, "10.40.21.123" may not hyperlink to that server but
> perhaps the company service status page, and "Chester to Liverpool" may
> hyperlink to the journey status on National Rail / Realtime Trains. Hush
> but I'm in the middle of making a webapp to make it really easy to post
> any activity I think useful (expanding my current Ruby scripts).
> 
> There is even more to this that I won't go into now; for example that
> private messages are possible as they are just notes with only one
> recipient, so only the creator and recipient can see and reply to it.
> Public and "only Followers" posts use special recipients that the PumpIO
> engine identifies and delivers accordingly. Nifty.
> 
> Hopefully there's something there of interest, or at least shows why I
> like it.
> 
> 
> Happy New Year and the other thing,
> Ben
> 
> --
> Ben Arnold
> Liverpool, UK
> 
> Free Software Foundation (Europe)
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