We can do better than Twitter, Bluesky and Mastodon, by taking the same approach we took with audio in podcasting, with text.
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We can do better than Twitter, Bluesky and Mastodon, by taking the same approach we took with audio in podcasting, with text.
Predictably, it’s called https://textcasting.org.
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We can do better than Twitter, Bluesky and Mastodon, by taking the same approach we took with audio in podcasting, with text.
Predictably, it’s called https://textcasting.org.
@davew Have you heard about blogging?
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We can do better than Twitter, Bluesky and Mastodon, by taking the same approach we took with audio in podcasting, with text.
Predictably, it’s called https://textcasting.org.
@davew So Textcasting is:
1. Rich text of the kind that can be generated by e.g. Markdown (presumably rendered as HTML),
2. Of arbitrary length (author decides), optionally with titles,
3. Editable after the fact,
4. Optionally with enclosures (referenced attachments),
5. Distributed to subscribers, presumably via RSS.I feel like this might be something you already helped invent and popularise! Textcasting is... blogging!
I'm all in favour of more people doing it, of course, and if calling it "textcasting" makes that happen, that's cool. But I'm not sure this is actually something new...
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@davew So Textcasting is:
1. Rich text of the kind that can be generated by e.g. Markdown (presumably rendered as HTML),
2. Of arbitrary length (author decides), optionally with titles,
3. Editable after the fact,
4. Optionally with enclosures (referenced attachments),
5. Distributed to subscribers, presumably via RSS.I feel like this might be something you already helped invent and popularise! Textcasting is... blogging!
I'm all in favour of more people doing it, of course, and if calling it "textcasting" makes that happen, that's cool. But I'm not sure this is actually something new...
It’s not that trivial. The point is we’re using systems like mastodon that omit most of those features, and blogging is missing the good features of twitterlike systems, like masto, Bluesky etc.
You can of course use RSS, but there are other useful transports like websockets.
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@davew Have you heard about blogging?
Yes, of course. I am the OG blogger.
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We can do better than Twitter, Bluesky and Mastodon, by taking the same approach we took with audio in podcasting, with text.
Predictably, it’s called https://textcasting.org.
Btw all the idiots who say textcasting is just blogging, you can apologize after admitting you didn’t read the post. 😀
“We can do better than Twitter, Bluesky and Mastodon, by taking the same approach we took with audio in podcasting, with text.”
I don’t see anything about blogging there do you?