Exactly, someone with more time than me please create a nice looking, lurker friendly, read-only aggregator with all the different content in all the different servers/communities. Ideally merging submissions and comments when possible. You would have me immediately as a user and I bet I wouldn’t be the only one.
It’s so obvious that I guess someone must have done it and I just haven’t heard about it yet.
I've been drawn to kbin, it is part of the "Fediverse", so you can see kbin, lemmy, and I believe also mastodon posts from it. If you just anonymously browse to https://kbin.social/ (the main instance right now) you'll have something similar to the reddit front page, content from a bunch of different instances. It is definitely still a little rough around the edges, but considering it is one dev and the first commit was only two years ago, it seems pretty good.
Is it automatically pulling content from all other instances??? That was not clear to me, I though it was some form of cross-posting and required someone to submit things.
So... Sounds like you want what I keep thinking about:
Front end that works with feeds from multiple sources, like RSS, and permits comments, posts etc using SSO, with all interactions logged centrally in the SSO account (for later edits deletes etc).
Sound about right?
Because you me it seems like every provider in that list should be able to make a profit off the data and interactions... With users who want increased privacy able to pay for an SSO subscription to prevent the sale of data on that end.
And we already have all the parts to make it work...
I was thinking about this yesterday and in other threads people are writing about similar systems. The key thing for me and the word that keeps getting written is "RSS", I want a powerful client to experience different content in different ways. There are many communities and content creators that I want to follow but it's too complicated with modern platforms. From a usability standpoint it's bad both for creators and for end users, the result of this is that you miss out on some important stuff.
For example I might not have time to watch Twitch streams or Youtube videos from a creator over a couple months but I would still be able to go to a weekend event in my city or buy some some new merch that he announced. In general I would need to use another platform to not miss out (Twitter, Instagram).
If I controlled a client capable of aggregating all types of content I could decide to filter things out according to my immediate needs.
Content creators would own their own platform or choose a generic service provider and have freedom about what to make (video, image or text posts) and how to monetize.
The problems are who pays who, content discovery, and a decently sized userbase.
Yes although me being primarily a lurker I need even less. More than post or comment, if I have an account it would be to block some things and prfioritize other things more closely. What you describe would make sense for more extended functionality, but there is silent majority of lazy lurkers like myself that could be served very easily.
Yeah, but for the platform to succeed, there needs to be one /main aggregator site that I can point people to, I don't want to remember random servers.
SirPsychoMantis|2 years ago
vruiz|2 years ago
DropInIn|2 years ago
Front end that works with feeds from multiple sources, like RSS, and permits comments, posts etc using SSO, with all interactions logged centrally in the SSO account (for later edits deletes etc).
Sound about right?
Because you me it seems like every provider in that list should be able to make a profit off the data and interactions... With users who want increased privacy able to pay for an SSO subscription to prevent the sale of data on that end.
And we already have all the parts to make it work...
codingcodingboy|2 years ago
For example I might not have time to watch Twitch streams or Youtube videos from a creator over a couple months but I would still be able to go to a weekend event in my city or buy some some new merch that he announced. In general I would need to use another platform to not miss out (Twitter, Instagram).
If I controlled a client capable of aggregating all types of content I could decide to filter things out according to my immediate needs.
Content creators would own their own platform or choose a generic service provider and have freedom about what to make (video, image or text posts) and how to monetize.
The problems are who pays who, content discovery, and a decently sized userbase.
vruiz|2 years ago
badrabbit|2 years ago
sumedh|2 years ago
I had the same thought, there must be many smart programmers with some good UX skills who must have done this (I hope)
badrabbit|2 years ago