@JubilantJaguar Yeah … I get that a RSS feed might be useful (being Friendica I can consume that) but then I guess if I commented on a story is it better that it could be linked back - I suspect that these issues might just because of the evolving federation capabilites of Flipboard (I could be wrong) - But yeah maybe in the meantime I might find some RSS from @AssociatedPress
@AssociatedPress Perhaps @admin@flipboard.social could help with advice?
Is this one of thoses cases where a petition might be a starting point?
@palordrolap @brachiosaurus There are a few differences. Governments dont generally make announcements on a particular TV station but usually provide an open access press conference.
Gov.uk is the 17th most visited site in UK in Dec 25- semrush.com/trending-websites/… - plenty of people visit that and its not even all of gov sites.
@palordrolap @rglullis Indeed. You cant even see what a UK government is posting without handing over your data.
@palordrolap @brachiosaurus If they are publishing something … it should be available to everyone. I domtnhave an issue with Meta or X taking a feed (RSS or Activitypub ) of their posts and publishong them ( like a TV or radio programme does.
@palordrolap @brachiosaurus They put it on their website and mention it in their communications. People and journalists sibscribe.
@palordrolap @rglullis @brachiosaurus But generally government officials make announcements at press conferences in government buildings with an open method for press to become acredited and attend. Sure politicians do media appearances - buts thats different - they are normally acting as an individual - effectively as a candidate.
@palordrolap @rglullis @brachiosaurus Government should post things in publoc places but X and Facebook arent public. They are like shopping malls - free to talk into but put restrictions around what you can do, substitute public law for.private contractual agreements and they replace public justice for their abitrary decision making about behalviour and extract costs ( data, tracking, attention sellijg & emotional manulipulation) from visitors. All of these things are bad for citizen involvement.
@Die4Ever Hmm weird . The link didnt come through
@Twoafros I think there was another platform/software that did events, posts, collaboration for community groups… I just cant remember the name …
@CraigCabbage @mat I had a look at this - - If this is ProBoards - proboards.com/free-forum-featu… - It looks that its a closed service - hosted by that company and either free (Where the audience is is the product sold to Google Advertising) or where someone can pay to host a forum (and remove the ads) - I couldn’t see any federation capabilities
Maybe it would make sense for them to have a Discourse type plugin that allows you to follow posts from the forums in ActivityPub to attract visitors but I guess they are too small to be able to devote their own resources to developing this capability.
From my perspective, If I was going to run a forum - I’d avoid this type of service since you are basically locked in and no doubt at some point it will get enshitiified. I’d either get a Lemmy server, use an lemmy server and create a community on that (so you are properly part of the Fediverse) or run a Discourse Forum (With ActivityPub plugin ) - where you at least own the domain and can move / migrate it if ever want/need to.
@rimu My idea is that once you have CardDav records you can join /link them manually. - That would still be useful to me.
However if a ActivityPub profile record could include things like email/phone (amd you could decide who to make them avaialbe to ) then I guess some automates matching would be possible.
@julian Yeah I definately didn’t think their concerns weren’t valid - I wasn’t sure that I could clearly demonstrate benefits / address concerns. (and they were technical forums) - Don’t get me started with my desire to include a link to a fediverse post in any comment I make in Reddit
@otters_raft I suggested on a few forums that I belong to that using the plugin might be useful and federating content would be a good idea - What I got back was fairly negative feedback - e.g people thought it would cause people who don’t have accounts on the relevant forum being able to spam the forum and get around repuation requirements (not true I understand) - but also a kind of - query why federation would be useful - with an assumption people would just come to the forums and monitor them directly.
@malfisya Friendica give you facebook like it used to be. Parents love it
@scrubbles @SuperDuperKitten My advice only host an instance for people you know ansmd trust. Its not hard to self host something like friendica on a raspberrypi or intel n100 machine using something like yunohost
@JohnnyEnzyme Yeah I was using a cliche term (but I see it so often where some people seem to want to do grand ‘performantive charity’ and then very quickly get angry and disillusioned when they don’t get the validation back for their efforts (which are quite grand to be fair) - To be clear that’s not all people.
I think people almost always mean well - and of course those public instances were needed to get things off the ground but I’m going to say that I’d rather see that they eventually die off as smaller servers become easier to run and people actually have personal connections with whoever runs the server they are using (ideally themselves)
I actually find legal structures like Trusts and Charities less than ideal. I know they exist for a reason and have a purpose but the structure of the relationship between the parties is weird - the giver of charity and the recipient - I prefer coops and mutual exchanges and engagements
@Steven_T_Baxter I don’t want to sound harsh … but as an example @elena - is actually doing the doing and getting into running her own server and learning how to make it sustainable. So are many people like mesamunefire@piefed.social
@frongt Yeah I am trying this. The handlenfor these magazines seem bit odd. I am yet to see if they work…