#friendfeed — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #friendfeed, aggregated by home.social.
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I need @taoofcoffee to remind me whether being drunk on social media is spelt durnk, durkn, dunkr, or whatever the hell it was back in the old #FriendFeed days because I'm too duknr to remember.
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I need @taoofcoffee to remind me whether being drunk on social media is spelt durnk, durkn, dunkr, or whatever the hell it was back in the old #FriendFeed days because I'm too duknr to remember.
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is there a #friendfeed equivalent in the #fediverse?
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is there a #friendfeed equivalent in the #fediverse?
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18 years on Facebook for me and a lot of people from a former social media network, #FriendFeed, that I'd love to stay in contact with, so I'm planning to put up a series of posts with ways to find me and requests for ways to find them. Have to hope the algorithm lets them see it before I flip the switch.
I've also got a lot of family there - Americans, Irish - but family is a perversely easier thing to break connections with as I've made my own on the web over the decades.
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18 years on Facebook for me and a lot of people from a former social media network, #FriendFeed, that I'd love to stay in contact with, so I'm planning to put up a series of posts with ways to find me and requests for ways to find them. Have to hope the algorithm lets them see it before I flip the switch.
I've also got a lot of family there - Americans, Irish - but family is a perversely easier thing to break connections with as I've made my own on the web over the decades.
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Just stumbled upon a folder of screen captures from the last minutes of #FriendFeed and it is #ThrowbackThursday so here are some clips of that wonderful site's sad demise in 2015 as we all watched the servers switch off one-by-one.
Great to see how many people from those days I'm still in contact with on social media (distributed around) and it's how @eivind and @taoofcoffee met.
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Just stumbled upon a folder of screen captures from the last minutes of #FriendFeed and it is #ThrowbackThursday so here are some clips of that wonderful site's sad demise in 2015 as we all watched the servers switch off one-by-one.
Great to see how many people from those days I'm still in contact with on social media (distributed around) and it's how @eivind and @taoofcoffee met.
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If I had to pinpoint when the rose-tinted view of Web 2.0 as an open-platform paradise began to fade away, the rise of Google Chrome over 2009 would be it. But I’d argue it was Facebook’s purchase of the trendy geek app FriendFeed in August 2009 that proved once and for all that big companies were in control of Web 2.0 now. https://cybercultural.com/p/040-web20-big-tech-control-2009/ #InternetHistory #Web20 #FriendFeed
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If I had to pinpoint when the rose-tinted view of Web 2.0 as an open-platform paradise began to fade away, the rise of Google Chrome over 2009 would be it. But I’d argue it was Facebook’s purchase of the trendy geek app FriendFeed in August 2009 that proved once and for all that big companies were in control of Web 2.0 now. https://cybercultural.com/p/040-web20-big-tech-control-2009/ #InternetHistory #Web20 #FriendFeed
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@molly0xfff Google Reader and #friendfeed before it was killed by Facebook https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FriendFeed
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@molly0xfff Google Reader and #friendfeed before it was killed by Facebook https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FriendFeed
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Surely it’ll be called FediFeed. Someone build this please :) #FriendFeed https://journa.host/@mathewi/111891645542552259
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Surely it’ll be called FediFeed. Someone build this please :) #FriendFeed https://journa.host/@mathewi/111891645542552259
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@evan @jwildeboer It’s kind of weird that the primary #ActivityPub implementations have been Twitter-style clones where a #FriendFeed style #lifestream would more accurately convey the content available.
I guess one complicating factor is that almost all #ActivityPub instances are for both publishing and consuming and as long as instances limits themselves to a 1:1 between what they can publish and what they can consume then #ActivityPub will have a hard time being extended in practice.
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@evan @jwildeboer It’s kind of weird that the primary #ActivityPub implementations have been Twitter-style clones where a #FriendFeed style #lifestream would more accurately convey the content available.
I guess one complicating factor is that almost all #ActivityPub instances are for both publishing and consuming and as long as instances limits themselves to a 1:1 between what they can publish and what they can consume then #ActivityPub will have a hard time being extended in practice.
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If I categorise my #birthday wishes on Facebook each year I can almost guarantee that the biggest group of well-wishers will always be people I met through #FriendFeed and that's true again this year. The connections you make on social media can last far longer than the networks themselves. Nice to see my friends from the Skeptics in the Pub (#SITP) days competing with actual family for second place in the categories.
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If I categorise my #birthday wishes on Facebook each year I can almost guarantee that the biggest group of well-wishers will always be people I met through #FriendFeed and that's true again this year. The connections you make on social media can last far longer than the networks themselves. Nice to see my friends from the Skeptics in the Pub (#SITP) days competing with actual family for second place in the categories.
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Yes it existed before G+. #Friendfeed launched in 2008, not so long after Twitter, and I think it was bought by Facebook in 2010. But it was the best 2 years of my life as far as social networks are concerned.
Friendfeed used a real-time engine called Tornado that was pretty unique at the time, and that's what brought Zuckerberg's attention. Facebook bought Friendfeed for the technology and the development team's talents. They kept it alive for about one year or so before pulling the plug.
Friendfeed looked a bit like some microblogging services of the Fediverse like Misskey or Firefish. You could write long posts (not sure what the character limit was, but way more than Twitter), the replies were displayed in real time and in a hierarchized manner.
You could save searches (a bit like Firefish's antennas). You could interface your account with other social services like Twitter or Tumblr, and automatically import/export posts from and to other services. You could create ghost accounts fed by RSS feeds or Yahoo! Pipelines or that kind of things.
It was truly amazing. And also one of the best online communities I've had the chance to meet.
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@rm4 Saw your mention of Google+ which was something I used to enjoy along with G Reader for RSS. Did you ever use #Friendfeed? That was a fantastic social platform until it was acquired by F...book.
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@blake I think #IndieAuth style login combined with a central #FriendFeed style #lifestream aggregation of content is what’s needed for the Fediverse.
That way I can have one central canonical identity to rule them all
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@blake I think #IndieAuth style login combined with a central #FriendFeed style #lifestream aggregation of content is what’s needed for the Fediverse.
That way I can have one central canonical identity to rule them all
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Hey, #fediverse how many exoduses from social media/forums/networks you experienced throughout your life?
I’ll start:
1. #fidonet to internet
(that’s due to internet becoming more accessible)
2. #livejournal to nowhere (bad management decisions of SUP pissed off a lot of users at least in RU segment)
3. #friendfeed to one of its successors. (FF closed by Facebook which bought it to get ownership of the “like” feature)
4. #twittermigration (for obvious reasons).You?
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Hey, #fediverse how many exoduses from social media/forums/networks you experienced throughout your life?
I’ll start:
1. #fidonet to internet
(that’s due to internet becoming more accessible)
2. #livejournal to nowhere (bad management decisions of SUP pissed off a lot of users at least in RU segment)
3. #friendfeed to one of its successors. (FF closed by Facebook which bought it to get ownership of the “like” feature)
4. #twittermigration (for obvious reasons).You?
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Somebody mentioned #friendica so that's another rabbit hole on the #Fediverse for me to explore. I like the layout, it reminds me of the old days of #Friendfeed before they were acquired by Farcebook. So now I'm @[email protected] too.
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Una delle cose curiose di #FriendFeed è che, nonostante fosse abbastanza di nicchia, aveva alcune figure famose. Ricordo in particolare #FrankieHiNRG, che ci “regalò” l'anteprima di un nuovo (all'epoca) singolo
https://yewtu.be/imy2QpUKzSg
(che fu peraltro molto criticato nei commenti, ritenuto —comprensibilmente— non all'altezza di #QuelliCheBenpensano nonostante le buone intenzioni propagandistiche nei confronti di educazione e cultura). -
Una delle cose curiose di #FriendFeed è che, nonostante fosse abbastanza di nicchia, aveva alcune figure famose. Ricordo in particolare #FrankieHiNRG, che ci “regalò” l'anteprima di un nuovo (all'epoca) singolo
https://yewtu.be/imy2QpUKzSg
(che fu peraltro molto criticato nei commenti, ritenuto —comprensibilmente— non all'altezza di #QuelliCheBenpensano nonostante le buone intenzioni propagandistiche nei confronti di educazione e cultura). -
@kosmar gepluseinst aber ich likete #friendfeed besser
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@roughconsensusandrunningcode a proposito, ma #FrankeHiNRG non c'è nel #Fediverso? Ricordo che ai tempi di #FriendFeed era abbastanza nerd da avere una presenza anche lí.
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@roughconsensusandrunningcode a proposito, ma #FrankeHiNRG non c'è nel #Fediverso? Ricordo che ai tempi di #FriendFeed era abbastanza nerd da avere una presenza anche lí.
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@andrea The only social network I know had an unusually large density of Italians (and Turks) was #FriendFeed.
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@andrea The only social network I know had an unusually large density of Italians (and Turks) was #FriendFeed.
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Now, before #FriendFeed got gobbled up and destroyed by #Facebook, there was a pretty lively and intellectually stimulating community there, even though too many of them (for my personal taste) used it as a “proper” #socialNetwork rather than as an aggregator. Of the most curious things that came out of the experience, the one I want to talk about is the one organized by #BarabbaEdizioni, a «non-existent publisher»
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Now, before #FriendFeed got gobbled up and destroyed by #Facebook, there was a pretty lively and intellectually stimulating community there, even though too many of them (for my personal taste) used it as a “proper” #socialNetwork rather than as an aggregator. Of the most curious things that came out of the experience, the one I want to talk about is the one organized by #BarabbaEdizioni, a «non-existent publisher»
https://barabba-log.blogspot.com/p/barabba-edizioni.html -
BTW, I recently had a trip down #memoryLane and realized that I might technically count as a #publishedAuthor. The story goes like this: a long long time ago in an Internet far far away, there was a social network that started in the best way: as a #POSSE aggregator. The name of the network was #FriendFeed, and apparently it reached its highest reach among users in Italy and Turkey.
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BTW, I recently had a trip down #memoryLane and realized that I might technically count as a #publishedAuthor. The story goes like this: a long long time ago in an Internet far far away, there was a social network that started in the best way: as a #POSSE aggregator. The name of the network was #FriendFeed, and apparently it reached its highest reach among users in Italy and Turkey.
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@pre @atomicpoet It’s not about the decentralisation but about the activity feed. I pine for the days of #friendfeed where everything put out an ActivityStream and you could aggregate a combined #lifestream from the diaspora of things. Structured data out from your inputs is what I’m after.
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@ciredutempsEsme Ce hashtag me fait repenser à la bonne vieille époque du réseau social #FriendFeed (très en avance sur son temps, mais racheté et tué par Facebook), où deux utilisateurs enthousiastes avaient créé un podcast dédié à FriendFeed qu'ils avaient nommé "FFundercats".
Du coup je me demand s'il existe un podcast dédié au #Fediverse.
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@atomicpoet we have at least one example of how it could be done in ex-#friendfeed community: currently not fedirated #freefeed, which is run by @dsumin and @thisalex among others is a registered NGO in Estonia. It is small enough community that its legal status probably wouldn't be that necessery to operate, but nevertheless it is protecting from such risks.
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"...we can actually aggregate Twitter into FriendFeed..."
Bret Taylor on FriendFeed
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"...we can actually aggregate Twitter into FriendFeed..."
Bret Taylor on FriendFeed
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#SocialMedia #SocialNetworks: I'm sorry but people who state that #Mastodon is identical or even similar to #Twitter are, I'm afraid, quite mistaken. The most appropriate analogy would be, I think, #FriendFeed - yup, that old social network aggregator that was bought by #Facebook in 2009 and then shutdown in 2015. This was, in my opinion, social networking done right. FriendFeed's shutdown also marked the end of the golden age of Social Media.
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#SocialMedia #SocialNetworks: I'm sorry but people who state that #Mastodon is identical or even similar to #Twitter are, I'm afraid, quite mistaken. The most appropriate analogy would be, I think, #FriendFeed - yup, that old social network aggregator that was bought by #Facebook in 2009 and then shutdown in 2015. This was, in my opinion, social networking done right. FriendFeed's shutdown also marked the end of the golden age of Social Media.
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@justinflood I don't have a stay and fight mentality. I have a pop by and eat popcorn mentality. I slowly drive by to look at the accident unfolding in real time. I was on #FriendFeed when that social media site shut down and there were a load of us watching updates stopping, taking screenshots of things failing; that was a sad time, but a shared one that made it special. I sort of want to experience the same thing on Twitter just to see what emotion comes from it.
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Interesting move. Given the movement in the real-time social feed landscape, the guy who co-created FriendFeed is on the loose again.
Bret Taylor steps down as co-CEO of Salesforce, Marc Benioff stays on as CEO
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It is an inevitability that in any new social network that permits the creation of lists of people based on some categorisation, I will have a list called #FriendFeed and I will gradually see old friends from that now defunct social network to add to it. #SocialMedia
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As social networks goes, I wasn't a huge Twitter user, even so I had my account since 2008, but preferred #friendfeed instead (and after Meta killed it — it's small scale spiritual successor, https://mokum.place), as well as Facebook, which is still the main place for Russian-speaking journalists, writers, poets and academics alike (the next big thing after LiveJournal in the history of the Russian internet). (09/12)