Reanimate cubbi.es

Good to know :)

Can we kill cubbi.es? I always thought it was a shitty idea, and it just serves to confuse people now.

Tom: Yeah, I think we can. Let's remove everything talking about it.

I think that it would be great to have something similar to cubbi.es, that allows users to easily link to content. The big question with Diaspora is, why do users want to visit? One big reason they want to visit is to see things that other users have posted. Anything that facilitates that should be encouraged.

What was so great about cubbi.es was: I read a funny comic, or see a picture, and...Shift-click, bam! I've posted it. It made it very, very easy for people to post stuff. It was fun, it was addictive, and it gave people a reason to use Diaspora.

I know that there's much more important stuff for the devs to worry about, but I would like to see some easy-post widget like that again.

If cubbi.es is not opensource and can't be fixed I'd be totally for removing everything related.

Brent, does the bookmarklet not do a similar job to what you're talking about? My understanding is you see something on line, click the bookmarklet icon and it gets posted to Diaspora.

I thought Cubbies was more about uploading your own photos to albums - that was how I used it (not that I used it much).

I could try asking Maxwell to release the source code under a Free Software license.

Diaspora currently doesn't have oAuth, so the community devs will probably need to start a new discussion centered around that. There have been suggestions to use openid, or we could implement oAuth. Or, if the Diaspora-Tent prototype ends up being a suitable candidate, we could probably make Cubbi.es a Tent app.

It could make for a good example API application, especially if the code was well-documented.
With some experimentation, we could probably make it work with authentication for several different social projects at once, like Friendica, Libertree, and Tent.

I could see that being a good outreach initiative for connecting to other projects, and eventually bringing a better convergence of federation standards and implementations to the table.

Sounds like a great idea (or several great ideas), Sean.

There are a lot of programmers out there who want to create something around Diaspora*, but can't/don't want to code in ruby. As long as they don't continiously lie to me, they are really in the need of an open API for Diaspora*. Once an even simple API is there, a lot of smartphone-apps and desktop-programs or even small blogging-widgets might evolve and vitalize the diaspora-community.

Goob, cubbi.es wasn't meant to be a photo album. From what I remember, it was Dan Grippi's idea. He was surfing around the web, finding funny pictures, and saving them to his computer. What cubbi.es does is bookmark those pictures, and make them available from your cubbi.es account. That means you can access them from your smartphone, tablet, or whatever, in one easy place. All you had to do was install a Firefox add-on, and then you could simply shift-click any picture on the web, and it would be added to your cubbi.es account. (The way they were stored was as one long page of embedded images, like a Tumblr page.)

Now, the main thing that I liked about cubbi.es, was that if you had your cubbi.es account linked to your Diaspora account, the picture would get posted to your D* stream as well. This made it super-easy for people to post stuff. More stuff posted means more content, which means more people wanting to use Diaspora.

No offense to whoever made the bookmarklet, but it doesn't even do the same job. Maybe you have a different bookmarklet, but the one I have merely posts a link to a webpage to your stream, which is not the same as posting an embedded image.

Another thing that's great about it is that it's really addictive, and it's something none of the other social networks have.