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My Faves Feed
Calling independent artists, writers, makers, thinkers!
If you have a webpage that:
- is not on a major social media site
- doesn't have anti-iframe code in it
- updates sometimes
- is on a topic that you think may interest me
I'd like to follow you!
It's part of a sort of experiment.
I'm trying to build a multi-site feed...
where I can follow different people on different platforms, or even personal websites...
and check up on them easily...
without being on the algorithm-curated dashboard of a big social media site.
(I kinda hoped I COULD include some people's individual pages where they post on big sites like Twitter)
(But turns out most of those have code that makes it not work)
(at least the way I'm trying to do it)
Basically I'm making a feed in very simple HTML, with each page of it containing:
- a bookmarked site embedded with iframe tags
- simple Previous and Next buttons to navigate to the other sites I've bookmarked
Here's what I've got so far:
It's all I've managed to do with HTML.
It would be pretty awesome if someone with more coding skills could expand on this idea.
So far, following people this way has made my online experience (and my whole mental health) approximately 100 gazillion times better.
But it needs a LOT of work.
For instance, I've got 2 ways to do this:
1. keep the HTML pages on my desktop, linking to each other in a folder, and use them only there
2. make them webpages on my site, where I can access them from any phone or computer, but have no way to make them private
These are both not ideal.
It would be preferable for this to be a browser.
Or a browser extension.
Or a site that people can customize their own profiles on.
Some similar things exist already (e.g. RSS feeds, and sites like Petrolette).
But I haven't found quite what I'm looking for.
I want it to work on different phone and desktop systems.
And show whole pages exactly as they appear normally, with just the Next button below.
...letting me browse through all my favorite sites one by one...
...as easily, lazily, mindlessly as I can doomscroll through Twitter or Facebook or whatever.
But less doom and more happy.
Also, as it stands, adding new bookmarks requires opening up a HTML editing program.
Would be nice to have a way to automate that, at least.
Still, this has made my browsing time more enjoyable than it's been since maybe 2004.
And I want more fun people I can follow this way!
And if anyone else wants to discuss the process & swap ideas, by all means, contact me!
But I'll see your message sooner if you use one of the methods on the Comment page -- because I'm not on Twitter that much anymore (yay!)
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