The new app called Tapestry, which began on Tuesday, crosses the web and social networks to count and configure information as a single place. In some ways, such as FriendFeed in this generation, they are old enough to remember the previous early attempts on feed and social media updates at a single destination to discover the early attempts of the Web 2.0 era.
However, FriendFeed is a tapesist that encourages discussions in the field, builds its own social network, and ultimately attracts Facebook’s arguments.
The problem with the app is that it is more common as the open social web grows. To keep it, people need to use a lot of services and switch apps.
It is in turmoil in the development of social network bluesky and masto money designed to compete with technology giants with open source software and power structure. Leave the platform of X and META.
To solve this problem is the main lottery of Tapestry, but at the time, it can limit the app’s charm beyond the initial advent crowd.
Integrated app
Today, most people already have news sites, blogs, podcasts and the processes, workflows and preferred apps that are used to follow the YouTube video of your favorite creators. Tapestry suggests to change this. With updates of other social networks such as Bluesky, Mastodon, Tumblr, etc., we offer a single place to check these updates.
Tapestry, which was originally designed by the team that designed Twitterrific, one of the third -party Twitter clients, suggests introducing a new type of timeline that is very similar to the Twitter scrolled by all updates. There is also an additional advanced tool that can be used to configure the timeline, such as selecting content to mute the content and collapsing “muffles”. Therefore, you can see the screen space and see if you want.
The latter can be used to improve both the aesthetics and atmosphere of the timeline. For example, you may want to create a political topic as a mufflement so that you do not overwhelm the screen as a scroll or muffler on your favorite TV show.
After adding social accounts, RSS feeds, blogs, podcasts, etc., you can set up a timeline and additional timelines that provide custom views of this information. For example, you can have a timeline focused only on social networks such as Apple News, Blogs and PODCAST or Bluesky and Mastodon.
To do your best in Tapestry, you need to think a lot about how you want a lot of thoughts and compositions about the information and update types you want to track. Seeing everything in a single feed is noisy due to all social app updates. The timeline is essentially a custom feed version of Tapestry (similar to the feed of Bluesky, but it has the ability to get it from multiple services as well as one. In other words, you will mean that you will serve as a feed maker as well as consumers until at least a more powerful developer ecosystem arrives not only on consumers as well as consumers.
Feed and connector
It feels like you’re trying to scratch the itching that the adventurer can have on the open social web, but counting all the contents as a timeline can sometimes feel excessive, and some user interface selection requires more luster. .
For example, Tapestry starts to open the App when selecting the “Open” option to open the original from the “More” (3-DOT) menu of the individual posts.
In addition, giving up the ability to use the original content with the additional tab does not become the best app for those who quickly participate in social dialogue when scrolling. If you open the in -app item, you need to log in to social networks. Set this as an open feed in “Safari”, and tapestry opens the relevant iOS app.
Unfortunately, this means that Tapestry does not actually solve the need to maintain multiple accounts in multiple apps.
Another confusing design selection includes two sections of the app that can add sources. One is “feed” and the other is called “connector”. The former can add “content in the timeline,” and the latter is “creating a feed that fills the timeline.” (If you are scratching your head in that description, it’s not alone. The app must provide more explanations.)
As a result, the connector works like a plug -in or add -on. They will be operated in the JavaScript Sandbox and will be built by a third -party developer community who wants to expand the tapestry ecosystem with their new feeds. Unfortunately, this connector cannot contain other sources that do not provide Facebook, Instagram, X or open feed.
The expandable app is a clever idea, but it is an app that can push the roadmap in the project further. At first, the team should focus on testing the user’s premise. want Not only social web, but also information on the web as a “timeline” from the beginning. User want Instead of using a separate app, have RSS, podcasts, social media and other services have been mixed?
Transitional stage or future?
Tapestry is not the only one who thinks that users control their feed, news and information sources.
New social apps, such as Bluesky and META’s threads, introduced the concept of customized feed, startups such as Graze provide advanced feed building tools, and FlipBoard built a new app to build a new app called SURF throughout the service. I introduced it. Unlike Tapestry, Surf’s user interface can be used to see all things by combining everything with one or according to the tap (clock, reading or listening) or the selected tab.
Other apps, such as FEEED and REEDER, have also appeared to solve similar problems related to feed consumption.
One problem with this solution is that today’s open social networks work in different protocols. MASTODON, PIXELFED, and others are building the default protocol in the ActivityPub, Bluesky and more and more customers. Meanwhile, old news sites, blogs and podcasts distribute updates to public protocol RSS.
Currently, Bridges is being built to connect networks such as BlueSky and Mastodon, and social apps such as Thread are integrated with ActivityPub, and the WordPress blog and newsletter platforms such as GHOST are known as Fedivesse through ActivityPub. Wage I am trying to.
It leaves us during the transitional period where you can’t choose the app you prefer and can’t see it all.
Instead, we have a tool to combine feed and source, but it is suitable. But some of these efforts feel like a temporary action on a new and open Internet where everything is eventually connected.
