makeworld
Discord status messages have given me an idea for a new "social network", where's there's no posts, feeds or history. You can just see a status message and maybe an emotion of the people you follow. Maybe optional music platform integration, as well as just specifying an album or whatever you're listening to this week.
Thoughts? I feel like it's the opposite of doomscrolling, it's just a way to see how people are doing and maybe learn something new about your friends.
epoch
@makeworld @binarycat would webfinger work then? structured data. over https.
makeworld
@epoch @binarycat I believe you did ha.
The main difference between this and finger is that this is structured data, while finger is just a text file. Structured data allows for different layout possibilities.
epoch
@binarycat @makeworld this is what I usually say in response to these type of posts about minimal status stuff. welp, now what do I say? um... before anyone tries to use a wrong finger URL (yeah, they exist) they look like: finger://thebackupbox.net/epoch instead of finger://user@host/ like you might expect, because you can ask a host about other hosts and finger user@host@host@host doesn't work well in a URL's authority section... um. yay finger.
epoch
@binarycat @makeworld just noticed that makeworld posted this last January, so at one time I probably did say "that sounds like finger" in IRC or something.
tebicat
@makeworld this kinda just sounds like finger tbh.
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