@bix You're absolutely right. When diving into the Indieweb community a while back I wanted to build an RSS reader into my blog that allowed me to like and reply via webmention. I was half way to building it but remembered that the experience of visiting the site itself was part of the joy. It's a balance between the convenience of delivery and the personal touch.
@colinwalker @bix
visiting the site itself was part of the joy
This is one of the charms of Fraidycat. It's not really a feed reader because you do not read posts on it. All it does is alert you that the feed you have subscribed to has new posts and when you click on the title you go to the post on the website. So all it does is monitor and you get to visit the site to read. I kinda like that.
@bix Hmmm, I actually enjoy the various forms of Likes on Facebook, but maybe that’s because my network there is completely people I met first offline. It feels good to “hear” the people with whom I spent 3 years in grad school “laugh” at a joke or “thumbs up” a production photo. Or have a ton of people in my community “heart” a post I make on the anniversary of an important mentor’s passing and remember when we all gathered in a theater to celebrate his life. //@colinwalker
@simonwoods I don’t know, it feels like humanity to me. I can’t physically high five my friends who are in LA for the premiere of their new opera, but I can do so virtually via Facebook. And the next time we’re together in person (which can be months given theater folks’ schedules), I can hear more over coffee. I can send love and light to my mentor’s widow on his birthday and give her a hug in person at the event for the fellowship in his memory the next week.
But I think my experience/use of Facebook is probably pretty far from the mean. @bix and @colinwalker’s points feel very true of Twitter for me and I’ve completely given up that platform (aside from occasionally checking out Popehat’s legal commentary).
@Bruce On the contrary, I believe your experience is quite close to that of a lot of people.
To be honest, with regard to FACEBOOK, I have a million and one contradicting thoughts and feelings and they are all entangled in my thoughts and feelings about humanity. It's inevitable, given the size and scope of FACEBOOK -- a thing about which I believe lots of people conveniently forget -- and altogether unruly for a reply thread.
@bradenslen There needs to be an app version of that! Maybe there's something else similar - I'll have to have a look.
@colinwalker I know there are browser extensions for FF and Chrome, plus some sort of apps for Windows, macOS and Linux. I'm not sure about others. I use the browser extension with Vivaldi (Chrome) and it works well.