I have also since this post purchased MMwave sensors. But they’re worse for picking up the cats.

You can fine tune some and the Aqara FP2 seems to do a good job ignoring pets.

I ended up making binary sensors for each room in Node Red. Did I leave the room? Who else is there, nobody? Ok mark it clear…

Why not use mmWave presence sensors?

Lots of people love to cuddle dogs as self-care and by golly, that’s just as wholesome as it gets.

This message is about as wholesome as it gets.

Who doesn’t love cuddling a dog? I bet even cat people wouldn’t say no.

Brian Blessed once sent me a Christmas card with “GORDON’S ALIVE” in big letters across it. My username is from Flash Gordon, not Star Wars or Warhammer.40k.

It’s been my nickname for 30+ years, so I went with it when I started out online.

I sometimes wonder about setting them loose just so we can ask them questions like “so you are a fan of having sex with headless, limbless torsoes… How long have you been a serial killer?”

And one I am glad we Admins got first… crack at.

Has anyone else encountered ad bots in their signup applications?

Yep.

Oh indeed. I expect someone will work to fill that gap eventually.

I tried a lot of keyboards but didn’t find anything that felt just right until I switched to Heliboard and I’ve been really happy with it. The only thing I miss is being able to add gifs but I won’t be switching back.

Yes, a lot of ideas knocking around this discussion are really Web 1.0 ideas given a Fediverse makeover. The advantage of using something like a federated social networking service is that you wouldn’t have to put much thought into building a links section, it would build itself as you add links while you are web surfing.

I took a look at your site and it is working on WordPress which now uses the ActivityPub protocol, so something like that should integrate nicely.

The only issue with Wikipedia (coming from a long, long time user and Administrator) is that freely open and editable wiki needs a critical mass of users to become self-policing.

One of the projects I’ve been kicking around for a while (and has worked it’s way to the top of my list) is a wiki that integrates with Lemmy (and, potentially, other Fediverse services) which you could definitely use as a form of curated link directory - having an external links sections was definitely one of the uses it could be put to (as well as holding an instances documentation and a community’s FAQs, for example).

Do it!

Then federate it.

Indeed. As I mentioned below, something like a webring (a FedRing) might be the solution to something I was pondering.

It is increasingly clear to me that a lot of directions Web 1.0 was evolving in were diverted or just killed off by Big Tech’s landgrab which built walled gardens. I see the Fediverse as a return to the idea of blogs (micro and macro), forums, etc but in a more natural progression to interoperability. This still isn’t perfect and there may be other early web ideas, like webrings, that improve discoverablity.

Thanks for that, a real blast from the past. I have a vague memory that I was an editor on the ODP or dmoz back in the day.

Sorry, I was hesitant to post links at first before I vetted them.

Yes, perhaps not coincidentally, I thought it best to ask for a human-curated link.

Oh indeed there are services out there that do something similar to Delicious, but I put a lot into that site only for it all to disappear due to the whims of some corporate overlord and I am not doing that again. What I am looking for is an easy Fediverse solution so my data is never lost again. Postmarks is definitely getting there but as a single-user service it isn’t quite what I am looking for.

Indeed. Places like Lemmy and Reddit might be called “link aggregators” but they are, ultimately, jumped up web forums (and that’s no slight, I’m a web forum guy through and through) and are nothing like the social bookmarking sites, like Delicious, which had greater breadth and depth (just look at your own bookmarks, you’d only share a fraction on here but you put a larger percentage into social bookmarking) but, crucially, essentially crowd-sourced the organisation and categorisation of those links.

Some kind of service that would sit alongside a fedi instance

I have been pondering the idea of “Fediverse plug-ins” that would do that, extending the core functionality of the service.

So in the case of, what we’ll call, Fedilicious users of the service could either punt over links they post to Mastodon or Lemmy to a social bookmarking plug-in where it is stored and categorised (or you could run a not to do this automatically) but they could also add links that might not be worth a new post or storing away for future reference, etc. You would then have a curated, easily-accessible repository of links that reflect the interests of that instance.

It needn’t itself be federated but if you did, you could have some “everything” sites (fedilicious.world?) which would accepted all links from other Fedilicious instances it is federated with (which would tend to be set to broadcast mode, so categorised links go out, they don’t receive all the links, although users could be allowed to add links to it from elsewhere).

Yeah, I was just looking at a webring and thinking “these still have a use”. They could definitely help with discoverablity on a broad front. I help Admin feddit.uk and had pondered reaching out to other British Fediverse services to make a Britiverse. However, how to hold it all together and navigate between them was proving tricky or clunky until I was looking at the webring and thought “FedRing”. Now that could work.

As the links show, Relicious/Fedilicious has been on my mind a while and I have been mourning the loss of Delicious for a long time. However, the above got me jotting down some notes.

It should be doable. I haven’t had a root through PostMark’s code but it might be they have done the bulk of the work already and it just needs a multiuser interface bolting on top of it.

Yeah, it’s the lack of organisation that is the issue and if we are thinking about web directories, there is the missing element of deliberate creation.