A plugin that just checks to see if Lemmy has any posts pointing to the current URL would be pretty nice. So I can go and get secondary opinions if I want.
Not sure how much stress that would put on servers though. I guess probably not that much if searches can just be exact matches on URLs.
wouldn’t be much stress really.
I’m currently building something with fediverse integration so this is a great idea and something i’ll look into. Basically you would be logged into an instance (lemmy.world) and if you’re navigating a to a site or even an RSS feed you could see if there’s any relevant links to said article/story/whatever back to lemmy.
right now I have a feed built that allows you to log into all your instances (mastodon, lemmy, peertube, etc) and displays all the content you’re subscribed to in a single feed. So adding in what you’ve suggested would be a great feature.
Haha, sick. Count me in if you want a beta tester :)
I’d love this. Maybe a filter for subscribed communitied but otherwise sounds like a great way to interact with a community around articles
I use an extension that replaces YouTube comments with Reddit comments, if the video was posted anywhere on Reddit.
Would be nice to have a Lemmy version.
Years ago https://web.hypothes.is/ used to let one annotate any website, but it appears now they are focused on only student/educational usage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothes.is
There was a plugin that allowed highlighting text on any web page, adding comments, and having threaded conversations based on groups… it was kind of cool, too bad it didn’t take off.
https://ucatt.arizona.edu/news/using-free-version-hypothesis
EDIT 1: I’ll be darned, the Chrome extension still exists… https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hypothesis-web-pdf-annota/bjfhmglciegochdpefhhlphglcehbmek
EDIT 2: I found my old account and the test annotations I’d done (and group definitions) still work! Guess this is still a working thing, worth exploring more.
It still works and I still use it. Every so often I even run into other people’s public comments in the wild.
This is very ‘meta’ – we should perhaps start a lemmy community to discuss what sites and groups to form, to use it on other sites. There could even be a lemmy group to comment on lemmy… or something :p
Here, I created a group for lemmy discussions! Hah.
This is awesome.
I recommend pasting this into TamperMonkey to have the Hypothesis controls display on every page.
Neat, thanks.
Is it OSS?
I just browsed a few of the component projects on github and it seems they’re BSD-licensed…
I think the answer to why there isn’t a modern alternative is under the History tab on that Wiki page.
Fun idea though, I had never heard of that one.
Easy to police now with AI, if someone gets rich send me some bitcoin im poor (:
Honestly, I know it’s not the same, but that’s why I have always gravitated towards “news aggregators”, basically the sites that bore progeny like Reddit and Lemmy, where you’re presented with links to news or random websites and people have their say about it in the comments.
I never heard of Third Voice and truthfully anything that is 100% reliant on a third party app or plugin / extension / mod / etc probably isn’t my bag of tea, but still a cool idea.
One of the best thing about old reddit was how often you’d see a post for a news article about some scientific research, and if you went in the comments you’d find something like, “I’m a graduate student who helped work on this research and the reporter completely misunderstood it and their conclusion in the article is all wrong. Here’s a link to the original paper, and I’ll give a brief explanation of what our research actually found…”
These days that’s more common on Lemmy.
Lemmy now definitely reminds me of the very early days of reddit, enjoying it immensely
There used to be a really niche version of this idea back in the day created by _why the lucky stiff in the ruby programming community. It was called hoodwink’d, at the time it felt like the way of the future, like a mobile underground peanut gallery. _why was doxxed and nuked his online presence before it ever took off
Did they ever ask why they got doxxed?
Edit: wooooosh
His identity was sort of an open secret in the community, he was a whimsical creative brilliant madman that was very well known, people were curious. Check out Why’s Poignant guide to Ruby for a glimpse and some foxes
Why’s Poignant guide to Ruby for a glimpse, wow very interesting…
there’s a more or less unspeakable amount of money riding on businesses’ ability to control the narrative around themselves. this applies to small businesses and big ones alike, and a service like this would be a target for corporations all over the world. a dox isn’t a large lift.
I remember Yahoo Chat used to let you go to a website and then chat with other users currently on that website. It was kinda cool.
But idk about Third Voice.
This sounds like so much fun! I don’t know of any such plugin existing, but I wish it would.
When the internet was fun
I fear after asking the question, could this be used as a weaponized bubble machine?
Or do they still exist?
I got the wiki data extension to try and have this effect, but that didn’t really work for the case. Still use to categorize stuff though.
