#channelsources — Public Fediverse posts

@silverpill @Tanguy Fardet Besides, not everything in the Fediverse works like Mastodon anyway.

I'm on Hubzilla which is basically the exact opposite of Mastodon. Hubzilla does not support Mastodon-style starter packs, but it has a feature of its own that can serve as something similar: channel sources. You can select certain contacts of yours and have everything they post automatically reposted on your channel.

So the trick is to create a new channel ("account" on Mastodonish, only that it isn't a new account because it shares the same login with the channel that you already use; it's a new, fully independent identity on the same account/login). You follow a bunch of Fediverse actors. You choose them as channel sources. And when someone else follows that new channel, they automatically receive all content from these channel sources. They can also choose to explicitly follow some of these Fediverse actors themselves.

I'd really like to see Mastodon users try to keep me from a) following their accounts and b) making their accounts channel sources. (By the way: Hubzilla users can keep other Hubzilla users from using their channels as channel sources. It's one out of many permission settings.)

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@Tim Chambers Any of this can be done with Hubzilla, by the way.

Tell me a few sources, ActivityPub actors, RSS feeds, Atom feeds, whatever, and I'll whip up a channel or a few that use them as channel sources and automatically repost them. I can optionally filter each source individually by categories or keywords. They'll even be available on diaspora* if I want to.

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@dynamic Could be that Channel Sources is acting up.

Try uninstalling and re-installing it. If it still doesn't do what it's supposed to do, try asking for help at the @Hubzilla Support Forum.

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@dynamic Could be that Channel Sources is acting up.

Try uninstalling and re-installing it. If it still doesn't do what it's supposed to do, try asking for help at the @Hubzilla Support Forum.

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@dynamic Could be that Channel Sources is acting up.

Try uninstalling and re-installing it. If it still doesn't do what it's supposed to do, try asking for help at the @Hubzilla Support Forum.

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@dynamic Could be that Channel Sources is acting up.

Try uninstalling and re-installing it. If it still doesn't do what it's supposed to do, try asking for help at the @Hubzilla Support Forum.

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@dynamic Channel Sources isn't a nomadic-identity-style live backup. It's an automated reposter.

It only reposts new posts when they come in. If you want Channel Sources to repost a Mastodon toot, you have to toot something after setting your Mastodon account up as a channel source.

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@dynamic Channel Sources isn't a nomadic-identity-style live backup. It's an automated reposter.

It only reposts new posts when they come in. If you want Channel Sources to repost a Mastodon toot, you have to toot something after setting your Mastodon account up as a channel source.

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@dynamic Channel Sources isn't a nomadic-identity-style live backup. It's an automated reposter.

It only reposts new posts when they come in. If you want Channel Sources to repost a Mastodon toot, you have to toot something after setting your Mastodon account up as a channel source.

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@dynamic Channel Sources isn't a nomadic-identity-style live backup. It's an automated reposter.

It only reposts new posts when they come in. If you want Channel Sources to repost a Mastodon toot, you have to toot something after setting your Mastodon account up as a channel source.

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@dynamic What you could do is as follows:

• Follow your own Friendica account from your Hubzilla channel.
• Activate the Channel Sources app on your Hubzilla channel.
• Add your Friendica account as a source in Channel Sources.

That way, Hubzilla will always automatically repost everything you post on Friendica.

Channel Sources could be described as a kind of universal reverse cross-poster. Reverse because it isn't "Hubzilla to something else", it's "anything that Hubzilla can connect to to Hubzilla". It could serve as a Friendica-to-Hubzilla cross-poster, as a Mastodon-to-Hubzilla cross-poster, as a Diaspora*-to-Hubzilla cross-poster, as an RSS-to-Hubzilla cross-poster (been there, done that, probably angered countless Mastodon users) etc.

The obvious downside is that these reposts are dumb copies which receive their own thumbs up, thumbs down, repeats and comments. None of this is sent back to Friendica. You still have to check your Hubzilla channel once in a while and, for example, reply to comments.

Also, I'm not sure what'd happen if you commented on something on Friendica, regardless of whether your Hubzilla channel is aware of that discussion or not. It could be that Channel Sources would also cross-post your comments and do so out-of-context.

And it seems to be Hubzilla-exclusive. (streams) doesn't have it anymore.

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@dynamic What you could do is as follows:

• Follow your own Friendica account from your Hubzilla channel.
• Activate the Channel Sources app on your Hubzilla channel.
• Add your Friendica account as a source in Channel Sources.

That way, Hubzilla will always automatically repost everything you post on Friendica.

Channel Sources could be described as a kind of universal reverse cross-poster. Reverse because it isn't "Hubzilla to something else", it's "anything that Hubzilla can connect to to Hubzilla". It could serve as a Friendica-to-Hubzilla cross-poster, as a Mastodon-to-Hubzilla cross-poster, as a Diaspora*-to-Hubzilla cross-poster, as an RSS-to-Hubzilla cross-poster (been there, done that, probably angered countless Mastodon users) etc.

The obvious downside is that these reposts are dumb copies which receive their own thumbs up, thumbs down, repeats and comments. None of this is sent back to Friendica. You still have to check your Hubzilla channel once in a while and, for example, reply to comments.

Also, I'm not sure what'd happen if you commented on something on Friendica, regardless of whether your Hubzilla channel is aware of that discussion or not. It could be that Channel Sources would also cross-post your comments and do so out-of-context.

And it seems to be Hubzilla-exclusive. (streams) doesn't have it anymore.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Friendica #Hubzilla #ChannelSources #CrossPoster

@dynamic What you could do is as follows:

• Follow your own Friendica account from your Hubzilla channel.
• Activate the Channel Sources app on your Hubzilla channel.
• Add your Friendica account as a source in Channel Sources.

That way, Hubzilla will always automatically repost everything you post on Friendica.

Channel Sources could be described as a kind of universal reverse cross-poster. Reverse because it isn't "Hubzilla to something else", it's "anything that Hubzilla can connect to to Hubzilla". It could serve as a Friendica-to-Hubzilla cross-poster, as a Mastodon-to-Hubzilla cross-poster, as a Diaspora*-to-Hubzilla cross-poster, as an RSS-to-Hubzilla cross-poster (been there, done that, probably angered countless Mastodon users) etc.

The obvious downside is that these reposts are dumb copies which receive their own thumbs up, thumbs down, repeats and comments. None of this is sent back to Friendica. You still have to check your Hubzilla channel once in a while and, for example, reply to comments.

Also, I'm not sure what'd happen if you commented on something on Friendica, regardless of whether your Hubzilla channel is aware of that discussion or not. It could be that Channel Sources would also cross-post your comments and do so out-of-context.

And it seems to be Hubzilla-exclusive. (streams) doesn't have it anymore.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Friendica #Hubzilla #ChannelSources #CrossPoster

@dynamic What you could do is as follows:

• Follow your own Friendica account from your Hubzilla channel.
• Activate the Channel Sources app on your Hubzilla channel.
• Add your Friendica account as a source in Channel Sources.

That way, Hubzilla will always automatically repost everything you post on Friendica.

Channel Sources could be described as a kind of universal reverse cross-poster. Reverse because it isn't "Hubzilla to something else", it's "anything that Hubzilla can connect to to Hubzilla". It could serve as a Friendica-to-Hubzilla cross-poster, as a Mastodon-to-Hubzilla cross-poster, as a Diaspora*-to-Hubzilla cross-poster, as an RSS-to-Hubzilla cross-poster (been there, done that, probably angered countless Mastodon users) etc.

The obvious downside is that these reposts are dumb copies which receive their own thumbs up, thumbs down, repeats and comments. None of this is sent back to Friendica. You still have to check your Hubzilla channel once in a while and, for example, reply to comments.

Also, I'm not sure what'd happen if you commented on something on Friendica, regardless of whether your Hubzilla channel is aware of that discussion or not. It could be that Channel Sources would also cross-post your comments and do so out-of-context.

And it seems to be Hubzilla-exclusive. (streams) doesn't have it anymore.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Friendica #Hubzilla #ChannelSources #CrossPoster

Jupiter Rowland wrote the following post Sun, 22 Jan 2023 16:15:23 +0100

Channel sources: Blogspot labels clutter list of categories

Can it be that the #ChannelSources app generally imports tags from blogs and similar news sources as Hubzilla categories rather than hashtags? Or is this a problem limited to Blogger/Blogspot-based blogs?

The problem I have is as follows: I automatically import a Blogspot blog into my personal stream. This blog uses labels which are similar to the (hash)tags that many blogs have.

Part one of the problem: The channel sources app makes these labels into categories rather than into tags.

Part two of the problem: This particular blog has a very chaotic way of labelling posts. It seems to be perfectly normal that about a dozen new labels are invented with each post.

Result: Each post drops about another dozen new categories into my category list which is now cluttered beyond good and evil.

Now, blog posts imported by the channel sources app cannot be edited in any way, so the only way of getting rid of these random categories seems to be by deleting the entire imported blog post which they came from.

So, feature request: Can such labels be imported as hashtags instead?