{"id":17768,"date":"2023-03-24T17:56:59","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T17:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?p=17768"},"modified":"2023-03-24T17:56:59","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T17:56:59","slug":"listened-246-building-your-own-social-network-with-the-friends-plugin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/listened-246-building-your-own-social-network-with-the-friends-plugin\/","title":{"rendered":"Listened: 246 \u2013 Building your own social network with the Friends plugin"},"content":{"rendered":"

So you love Facebook and you hate Facebook, you love Twitter and you hate Twitter. You love\u2026 You get the idea! If you\u2019re anything like me you have at times questioned how much time you\u2019ve spent trawling through social media. You may even be worried about how much data they\u2019ve been gathering about you, or perhaps thinking about whether or not we\u2019re even able to escape from it all. On the podcast today we\u2019ve got Alex Kirk, and he certainly has been thinking about all of this. So much so in fact that he\u2019s built a social network plugin for WordPress. Listen to the podcast to find out all about it\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Really interesting podcast discussing the Friends WordPress plugin<\/a> with its author Alex Kirk. A lot of interesting features, including a built in RSS reader and a WordPress to WordPress social network.<\/p>\n

I had a couple of thoughts, I wonder if this would work on a WordPress multi-site like Glow Blogs<\/a>?<\/p>\n

I also wondered if importing all these posts you were reading would bloat your own blog? This was answered in the podcast, you can set the number of posts kept or the length of time to keep them.<\/p>\n

Alex did mention the IndieWeb, so I am wondering if there is much integration, with webmentions or bookmarking for example.<\/p>\n

Obviously to use the social part you need friends using the plugin, but I think I’ll install it somewhere to see how it works as an RSS reader when i have a mo.<\/p>\n

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So you love Facebook and you hate Facebook, you love Twitter and you hate Twitter. You love\u2026 You get the idea! If you\u2019re anything like me you have at times questioned how much time you\u2019ve spent trawling through social media. You may even be worried about how much data they\u2019ve been gathering about you, or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[953,6],"tags":[522,582,11],"post_format":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17768","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-posse","7":"category-wwwd","8":"tag-indieweb","9":"tag-social-media","10":"tag-wordpress","11":"kind-listen","13":"h-entry","14":"hentry","15":"post-kind"},"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p57zFQ-4CA","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17768"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17771,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17768\/revisions\/17771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17768"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=17768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}