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Comment by canpolat | Hacker News Reader

I always thought, the "correct" way of doing this was the other way around: the RSS reader would implement ActivityPub so you could "toot" from within you RSS client. It would perhaps attempt to collect other "toot"s about the same link, facilitating a discussion (and keeping everything at one place). But I think this is the next best thing, especially for those feeds you tend to share on the social networks (I don't think it's feasible to reproduce the RSS reader following with this).

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> It would perhaps attempt to collect other "toot"s about the same link, facilitating a discussion (and keeping everything at one place).

If you go to Explore → News on Mastodon, there's like a list of 10 trending articles within your network. It also includes "discussed by X people in the past Y days", but annoyingly there's no way to reach those discussions and read what people thought about the article.

So I feel like Mastodon's moving in the right path to serve that purpose, it's just unfinished.

That's kinda how we've approached it with some of the IndieWeb tools (https://indieweb.org/reader) where you can subscribe to the various feeds you want to, and can directly like/reply/etc

I am an active user of Monocle (https://monocle.p3k.io), a social reader UI (which is connected to a feed polling service, in my case Aperture). I can click "like" or "reply" and the reaction is published on my personal website. A notification is sent to the recipient via Webmention that I liked/commented on their content (if their site supports webmention).

Isn't that effectively Micropub/Microsub? RSS was only ever meant for passive consumption, but similar IndieWeb specs have been layered on to support more social features and two-way engagement.

Many RSS readers implement a "share" button that can be used to post to a mastodon account. Is this different than the workflow you're describing?

Yes, there is a slight difference in that, I would like the RSS reader to find other social accounts (Mastodon, Lemmy, etc.) that shared the same link and bring them in context so that the user can directly interact with those as well. I know it's not trivial to do, but one gets to dream, right?

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