This seems like a worthwhile proposal. Here’s the heart of it:
Create at least one (could be many competing) browser plugins that enable you to (a) select feeds and then (b) display them alongside a user’s Twitter, Facebook, etc., feeds. (This could be an adaptation of Greasemonkey.) In other words, once this feature were available, you could tell your friends: “I’m not on Twitter. But if you want to see my Tweet-like posts appear in your Twitter feed, then simply install this plugin and input my feed address. You’ll see my posts pop up just as if they were on Twitter. But they’re not! And we can do this because you can control how any website appears to you from your own browser. It’s totally legal and it’s actually a really good idea.” In this way, while you might never look at Twitter or Facebook, you can stay in contact with your friends who are still there—but on your own terms.
A browser plug-in may be a good start. But even better would be to have this functionality embedded in the browser.
It strikes me that there are some very large organizations that (a) make browsers, (b) do not have significant social media revenue/exposure, and (c) therefore might not object to this functionality: Google’s Chrome, Microsoft IE/Edge, Apple’s Safari, and Mozilla’s Firefox.
Even if it were only Microsoft, that would still cover about 14% of the desktop browser market, though of course Google would be the one to convince. The initial objection you’d have to overcome, I think, would be the potential negative impact on YouTube as a discussion platform (of sorts, I know). But presumably that would be balanced out by its impact on Twitter and Facebook…
Why not expand to webpage software like Wordpress. I know they have a widget that you can install on your personal webpage that has something like a twitter scroll/update.
Second, go to a site like this one:
https://www.rssinclude.com/my_rssboxes/create_new_box
It lets you pick options like the width of your widget, the height, the padding, the color, and generate PHP or Javascript code you can include on your own. There’s an option for Wordpress as well.
Third, include that code in your blog or Wordpress site.
This seems like a worthwhile proposal. Here’s the heart of it:
A browser plug-in may be a good start. But even better would be to have this functionality embedded in the browser.
It strikes me that there are some very large organizations that (a) make browsers, (b) do not have significant social media revenue/exposure, and (c) therefore might not object to this functionality: Google’s Chrome, Microsoft IE/Edge, Apple’s Safari, and Mozilla’s Firefox.
Even if it were only Microsoft, that would still cover about 14% of the desktop browser market, though of course Google would be the one to convince. The initial objection you’d have to overcome, I think, would be the potential negative impact on YouTube as a discussion platform (of sorts, I know). But presumably that would be balanced out by its impact on Twitter and Facebook…
Why not expand to webpage software like Wordpress. I know they have a widget that you can install on your personal webpage that has something like a twitter scroll/update.
Not a bad idea! It’s actually pretty easy to do this already.
First, pick which Talki.ng RSS feed you want. Here’s the one for the whole site: https://talki.ng/rss Or an RSS feed for just a single tag, like gunrights: https://talki.ng/t/gunrights.rss
Second, go to a site like this one: https://www.rssinclude.com/my_rssboxes/create_new_box It lets you pick options like the width of your widget, the height, the padding, the color, and generate PHP or Javascript code you can include on your own. There’s an option for Wordpress as well.
Third, include that code in your blog or Wordpress site.