One thing I'd really love to see as a feature for most #Fediverse platforms: auto-boost specific accounts.
It would be great if my general social account automatically shared Pixelfed pictures and PeerTube videos and Funkwhale music and WordPress blog posts automatically.
I know Hubzilla and probably Streams have that. It's a good feature.
Gidi Kroon
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damon
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in reply to damon • • •@damon @gidi Friendica and Hubzilla have this way of creating RSS mirrors that kind of act like bots in your feed. It’s possible to go into a setting on your account and enter the handle or address of what you want to see boosted on your own profile.
I used to do something like this with the early Hubzilla version of We Distribute, where every Fediverse platform got their own channel populated with software releases, blog posts, updates mirrored from official accounts, and other stuff.
It was awesome.
damon
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These are two screenshots, one of me following my own Pixelfed account with my Friendica account. On the mirroring settings of the contact I have chosen 'native reshare', which means boost in Mastodon terms. When I post on my Pixelfed, it automatically gets shared to my followers here.
The other screenshot is of a test setup. I created a group account as a side channel of a main account and when I switch to the group account, it follows several rss feeds (actually the same tag in different publications). The mirroring is set to 'as own post', so when anything appears in the feeds, the group creates a post with that message. In this case it collects several feeds together about the same subject but from different sources.
damon
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in reply to Sean Tilley • • •I almost wonder if this might be a good stepping stone for Digital Identities in the #Fediverse: doing something like an OAuth dance between different accounts, and assigning them to one digital ID?
Maybe you could even set rules for the “main” account to do stuff with the other accounts linked to it?
Sean Tilley
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in reply to Sean Tilley • •@Sean Tilley Almost there with OpenWebAuth:
When I visit a Friendica server that I don't have an account on, e.g. the support forum, it welcomes me because it recognises my identity from my own Friendica server. I don't know what I can do with that, though, since I can't post like that... Maybe it's useful for private forums.
Sean Tilley
Unknown parent • • •@mikedev @gidi Ooh, interesting!
I thought Wall-to-wall was dead, though? 🤔
Hypolite Petovan
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