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Patrick Marchiodi 5 anni fa friendica

Friendica and collections

I'm getting my feet wet with #friendica and it's looking good so far. It allows me to have diaspora, mastodon, rss and maybe some more stuff, all in one stream, and it's great.
One thing I miss from G+ though are #collections, since they allowed my to sort my own posts by topic. How can I best achieve this on friendica? The only thing I can think about are hashtags, but those aren't specifically bound to my account. I.e. if I wanted to post about #RPG and then look at all my own posts on that topic, would there be a way to do that?
I also used to have an opt-in collection for nsfw/pinup art which I would not like to pop up in other people's streams unless they wanted to.

Thanks to anyone who can help!

#RPG #friendica #collections

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hoergen 5 anni fa friendica

@Patrick Marchiodi There is a support forum @Friendica Support where you get help in such cases ;)

You should have a widget "Saved folders" or something like that. And if you use Theme Frio, there is a button on every post on the top right. When you click on it, yous should have an option "Save to folder". (the names may vary, because I use the german UI ;)

@Patrick Marchiodi @Friendica Support

Patrick Marchiodi 5 anni fa friendica

thanks @hoergen :)
I do use Frio and I see the "Saved Folders" box in the left column. Do my followers also see in which folders I save my posts?

@hoergen

hoergen 5 anni fa friendica

@Patrick Marchiodi I don't think so, but I don't know.

@Patrick Marchiodi

Lapo Luchini 5 anni fa friendica

I want your collections back, too. :D

Tartarosso 5 anni fa mastodon (AP)

@lapo @patmax17 yes! Give us your collection again! My productivity at work has increased too much in last times :)

@Lapo Luchini @Patrick Marchiodi

Blinky 5 anni fa diaspora (via DFRN)

Friendica and Hubzilla both have categories which could be used to provide personal collections, although there isn't an easy way to subscribe/follow them. I saw recently that somebody was working on G+ collections for Zap.

Blinky 5 anni fa diaspora (via DFRN)

I asked the guy doing this for Zap and it turns out he's the original author of both Friendica and Hubzilla. Collections isn't working yet, but when I asked about following categories he said you could use the "connection filter" feature in Hubzilla to choose which posts you want in your stream from any of your contacts. I can follow only your posts about #dragons and ignore everything else. He's adding a way to support categories so I can use $dragons to filter on a category instead of the hashtag #dragons. Apparently Friendica has something similar.

#dragons

hoergen 5 anni fa friendica (via ActivityPub)

On Friendica you can follow hashtags, when you search for it and save the search with the "+".

Blinky 5 anni fa diaspora (via DFRN)

@hoergen Following tags is different from collections, which are usually single topic posts by a particular author that you can follow like a Facebook page. I want to see Dave Sutton's animations but that doesn't mean I want to see all animations or even all of Dave Sutton posts. This connection filter might work for what we need.

@hoergen

hoergen 5 anni fa friendica (via ActivityPub)

@Blinky hmm you could create another account or forum, where you post alle topic related stuff in there.
I do so with movies, cryptocurrencies, music, musicproduction, running and my federation podcast.

@Blinky

Patrick Marchiodi 5 anni fa friendica (via ActivityPub)

I'm aware that I can follow hashtags but those are not bound to specific contacts. I.e. I might want to follow everything @hoergen posts about #cats, but not what *everyone* is writing about #cats
Or take my nsfw collection on G+, while being a collection of sexy images, I avoided posting anything outright pornographic, and avoided nudity as much as possible. So while NSFW, it was somewhat "safe". I'm sure my followers don't want to simply follow the #NSFW tag ;)
Another thing i thought about is creating specific hashtags, e.g. #patmax17NSFW but it's a clumsy workaround...

#cats #NSFW #patmax17NSFW @hoergen