Lists are a feature I'm considering for making pnut.gallery a more functional app. Don't want to delete and create messages in a channel to reorder an image in a photo gallery.
I think PNut could be useful as its own water cooler, plus as another tool for glue into the Internet. Like with RSS streaming into your pnut streams, being able to bookmark and annotate bookmarks.
My ideas around API first-party "lists" as an object are in a similar vein. Where channels are time-series, lists would be formally curated (can be ordered, e.g.).
- posts.pnut.io/1218455 "people going Monk-mode on their phones" no social media - posts.pnut.io/1218464@papierzeit: "I have now removed all social media apps from my smartphone and by all I really mean all, even YouTube and co. #Pnut is all that remains…"
Over the years there's been a lot of public undermining of social media as a past-time. When I think of how @joanna and some of us used social media… the public didn't really get that. My friends don't get it still.
@thrrgilag right, if we make it a node on activitypub, micro.blog, etc, it doesn't justify the labor or the pay, and of course cuts into what pnut has been… table stakes.
@thrrgilag another good question. Over the years I've been open to the possibility or ambition to make it a full-time or even part-time job. Part-time is probably workable. I think the general public would say that's a ridiculous idea. It is boutique.
Yeah this is a tough one. I'm generally in favor of federated networks but as I've thought about it for pnut, supporting something like ActivityPub (or other federated protocols) doesn't really gain you anything unless you were planning to change how pnut operates.
@33MHz out of curiosity do you have a desire to grow pnut into a business, potentially your full time job? Or is it really just a hobbyist thing and let people do with it what they will provided it can pay for itself?