Keep Comments Open! by Dan Allosso

Some thoughts about the ability to turn off public comments on Substack posts, which may diminish the conversation.

https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2022/08/added-hypothes-is-annotations-link-to-posts/

Also... just to show the functionality. (aka: First!)

https://cathieleblanc.com/2022/06/21/photo-sharing-work-flow/

https://spencergreenhalgh.com/myself/embedding-hypothesis-as-a-commenting-system-on-hugo-static-sites/

Social annotation at it's deepest and finest!

https://notiz.blog/2022/04/27/custom-post-type-comment/

https://blog.flickr.net/en/2022/03/17/flickr-forever-2022/

Flickr is creating space for restricted and moderate content. Free users can only have 50 non-public photos.

https://collect.readwriterespond.com/antennapod/

I feel your pain here Aaron.

Perhaps it helps, perhaps not, but I've been using AntennaPod for a few years now. In particular I love it on Android because I can use the share functionality to share to a custom email address which posts to reading.am for an account that aggregates everything I'm listening to. Then I port the RSS feed of that back into my site. It's a stupid amount of manual work, but it mostly works.

Alternately you could share material you listen to to Huffduffer and pull data out that way as well. My problem here is that Huffduffer is more of a bookmark service than a "listened to this" sort of service, though you could always add a "listened" tag to the things you've heard in the past.

The tougher part of all this is that podcasts have "canonical" links for the podcast episodes (sometimes) and an entirely different link for the audio file which has no meta data attached to it (presuming you can even find the URL for the audio file to begin with.)

AntennaPod allows you to pick and choose what you want to share, so usually I default to the audio file to get that in to the workflow and finding/adding the data for the particular episode is a bit easier.

I will say that this is one of the ugliest and most labor intensive workflows I've got for social posts, so I'm usually only doing it and posting publicly for things that I really think are worth the time that make for interesting notes/observations that go along with the post.

I'm curious to see what others come up with for this workflow.

https://blog.remark.as/introducing-private-letters

https://jamesg.blog/2021/09/13/new-social-pages

Some awesome looking progress here.

https://www.hivedigital.com/2019/12/09/guest-post-emails/

For @mentions on one's own website the feed https://hypothes.is/stream.rss?wildcard_uri=https://example.com/* should work for folks using Hypothes.is as a commenting system on their website.

To cover other cases when people don't use the @ symbol, one might also subscribe to https://hypothes.is/stream.rss?any=%22username%22

This is exactly the sort of thing that makes me happy about the IndieWeb!

One person tinkers around with an idea and posts about how they did it. Someone else sees it and thinks it's cool and wants it for themselves. They then modify it for their system, maybe with some changes or even improvements, and post the details on their site.

They've both syndicated copies to IndieWeb news or to the IndieWeb wiki, so that in the future, others looking for that sort of UI research or examples can find them and potentially modify them for their own personal use.

And the cycle begins anew...

My general heirarchy is that bookmarks are things I want to come back to (and usually read) later, reads are things that I've read, like are things I've read and want to send appreciation for, and replies are things that usually are both read, liked, and needed even a bit more.

Here's more on how I've thought about it before: https://boffosocko.com/2018/03/10/thoughts-on-linkblogs-bookmarks-reads-likes-favorites-follows-and-related-links/

This is sort of the fun, I think, in maintaining things like listen and read posts on my site. While they're a useful archive for me, in some part I hope they might speed some discovery for folks who find them or search them by category/tag as well.

I could post somewhere, "Hey I listen to this podcast," or retweet a headline, but invariably in the morass of content out there, there isn't actually an indication that I invested my finite amount of time actually listening to or reading that thing. Perhaps I was just doing some social signaling to make myself seem more interesting or worldly? To me this is a lot of the value of these types of posts.