Post #978571

2023-12-14 12:30 UTC

I am working on a replacement for #fedifinder: Cross platform follow management. I want to make it easy to reconnect with people you like but also to disconnect from the ones you don&#39;t like. Show you if someone joined a platform you are using as well and help you remove them from your followings if you are no longer interested in their content or want to block them. Without searching for them individually on each platform. Main challenges: - Tech: Many platforms don&#39;t have APIs anymore - Legal: Platforms try to prohibit scraping - Legal: What legal basis do I have for data collection and processing - Ethic: How to not show accounts who do not want to be shown (I want to only use public information. Eg. links in bios or on websites. Is following no-index tags and nobot in bios enough?) - Money: Putting some features behind a paywall or find a different model Before I invest time into coding, I would love to hear your opinions. (I have a small budget for consultations. If you have more to say, feel free to sent me a mail hello@lucahammer.com with your fee. Especially if you are part of a marginalized group and/or could be hurt by a service that makes it easy to discover accounts across multiple platforms.)

Replies (4)

@luca@social.luca.run 2023-12-14 17:02

Which domain names do you like best? (If you hate one, register it, so I can't use it anymore.)

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@Herr_Irrtum@mstdn.social 2023-12-14 18:20

@luca This sounds all cool to me. Dunno about API support, but I'd love to see better Misskey support (or Firefish, Friendica etc.) for services like yours, but I can "sense" just from the choice of names that this isn't about "Mastodon only". Good! I also like how you consider/anticipate possible conflicts beforehand (i.e. marginalized groups; privacy aspects). Good again! Very cool However I don't think I could help much for specific questions...

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@josef@mastodon.uniteddiversity.coop 2023-12-20 14:11

@luca many thanks for your efforts. I don't have any useful thoughts to contribute to your questions above, but just wanted to thank you for your previous #fedifinder work and to let you know that I wait with baited breath for this new offering. I was just about to recommend FediFinder to a new #Mastodon user and was sad to discover it's effectively been killed by Musk's API price hikes (I'm presuming?) 😭 In the meantime, are you aware of any still functioning alternatives? Thanks!

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@kgaiji@framapiaf.org 2024-11-26 08:53

@luca Hi, i think that it is a real problem to not have a #fedifinder for people migration from X to Mastodon. thank you for Your time on it. Why isn't it still not working?

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