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jo @adragonesscalledjo6/14/2023, 7:40 AM

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ash @astral6/14/2023, 5:41 AM

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jo @adragonesscalledjo6/14/2023, 7:40 AM

Yes! This please!
Combine it with curated lists where I can show person>topic slices and it's so close to what I want.
A place where I can check in on the lives of folks close to me.
A place where I can follow story progression from authors I love.
A place where I can catch up on the latest for $special_interest.
A place which I can engage in or not as energy allows to stay informed about how politics are trying to eradicate people like me today.

They're all very different, yet happen in the same place.

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Irenes (many)@ireneista6/14/2023, 6:04 AM

Google+ briefly implemented this, in the final years of its public existence

honestly it wound up being kind of inconvenient, but it was pretty cool too

Andrew @polymath6/16/2023, 7:36 PM

This is true, but (unless they added another thing after I stopped using it) Google+ kind of got it wrong too — their "circles" thing was great if you wanted to (eg) add work people and family and friends and online kinky people and know that a certain bit of content only went to one group, but for this use case, where you're doing topics, it makes way more sense for other users to choose which circle they're in. I don't know if you care about maths nonsense or computers or want to have politics in your feed or whatever, and Google+ made me guess. User opt-in with defaults and protected categories is a really neet solution.

Irenes (many)@ireneista6/16/2023, 8:03 PM

they did add another thing, we can't even remember what they called it but it was an exact counterpart to circles in the way you describe

sudocurse @sudocurse6/16/2023, 9:51 PM

it's really just a shame google+ was run by google

Irenes (many)@ireneista6/16/2023, 9:53 PM

yes, exactly :(

@Janet6/16/2023, 10:06 PM

maybe their projects are cursed and bound to die? kismet? neccessary sacrifices for some future software landscape where even wave had to be retired...

(at least i remember google wave as pretty cool, albeit weird)

Irenes (many)@ireneista6/16/2023, 10:25 PM

sigh speaking as an ex-Googler, it took us a few years of working there to connect a few ideas to each other and realize that the company views this as a good thing

"fail fast" is how they put it. if an idea won't work, you want to learn that before you've spent too much money on it

makes sense in principle but the implication is that they never fully commit to anything.... which means a lot of things fail that didn't need to

yes we just accused a megacorp of doing insecure attachment. we stand by it.

@Janet6/16/2023, 10:43 PM

i mean: even apache retired it..

isnt that kinda spooky?

Irenes (many)@ireneista6/16/2023, 10:46 PM

which thing, again?

@Janet6/17/2023, 8:21 AM

not sure if you are jokingly acting like you want to avoid the cursed projects of google XD

uh...

google wave, apache took over when google binned it and then retired it in 2018

Irenes (many)@ireneista6/17/2023, 10:19 AM

oh! we didn't realize apache was involved. thanks!

rose @rosieposie6/16/2023, 8:10 PM

always wanted something like this too, it would be fantastic

gabby @fullmoon6/16/2023, 9:21 PM

being able to follow one or more tags for a user instead of all of their posts would get you a large part of the way there

inbtwn @inbtwn6/16/2023, 11:41 PM

oooh i really like this idea a lot...

PinballsWizard @pinball6/16/2023, 11:49 PM

i'd love to see something like this! as a bonus i also think it'd encourage a rougher more successful type of categorizing than what seems to happen naturally with just tags and being able to pin them to our profiles

Sanqui 🦉@sanqui6/17/2023, 8:39 AM

Yes please.

Xoey @CandyCorvid6/18/2023, 10:39 AM

have you made a feature request? I would love this too!