2020/Austin/social-readers

 Social Readers  was a keynote by at IndieWebCamp Austin 2020.

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Notes archived from chat.

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 * Realized at one point he hadn't posted on Facebook in six months, worried people might have thought he died
 * Made a post on FB explaining that he doesn't post there anymore with links to his site
 * Liked Instagram, but mostly used it because he had a pipeline where ownyourgram posted his photos back to his site
 * They've locked down the API so that's not working as well (at all?)
 * Twitter isn't really fun anymore either. Random order with the algorithm, every tweetstorm ends with the "please unroll"
 * Thinks we can do something better.
 * Has been posting on his own site for a while. Which is great, but very different from using it every day as a social experience.
 * Integrated posting and reading experience had been missing in indieweb
 * In the past we had Google Reader. Was good at aggregating stuff around the web. Was still just one direction though
 * Shows Monocle
 * web-based application, responsive for desktop and mobile
 * there's a handful of others: Indigenous on iOS and Android and Together
 * Can log in to these readers and see the same content he has subscribed to
 * the list of feeds he's subscribed to lives on his site, e.g. via Aperture
 * The specificaiton for this is Microsub
 * Impelemented in WordPress, Drupal, Ekster, Dobrado, others
 * one of the building-blocks
 * Last night he got a Push notification from his site from Brian asking if the group was still at the restaurant
 * Aaron went to Monocle, typed in a reply and posted it. It was published on his site and a webmention sent to Brian
 * No silos involved in the interaction!
 * Highlights four of our principles:
 * Build things you will use yourself
 * UX and design before protocols
 * Modularity
 * Plurality of projects