A new application called textureIt was launched on Tuesday, collects and organizes information from all over the web and social networks in one place. It is, in some respects, such as the friend of this generation, for those who are aged enough to remember the previous attempt of the 2.0 web age to the total summaries and social media updates in one destination for discovery and discussion.
But while Friendfeed encouraged discussions on the site, building its own social network-and at the end of the survey by Facebook- Tapestry works better as a reader.
The problem that the application treats has become more common with open social web growth: in order to keep up with it, people must use a lot of services and do a lot of switching.
Amid a wave of development that includes the growing social networks Bluesky and Mastodon, designed to compete with technology giants with open source programs and decentralized energy structures, there is also a challenge to keep pace with friends and followers who have now spread through many places after many places after that leaving X and Meta platforms .
Treating this problem is the main drawing of TAPESTRY, but this, at the present time, may also limit the application of the application until the early crowd.
Unified application
Today, most people already have favorite operations, work and applications that they use to keep up with news, blogs, podcasts and YouTube videos from favorite creators. The fabric suggests changing this. It provides one place to check these updates along with those in other social networks that you may use, such as Bluesky, Mastodon, Tumblr and others.
Twitterrific, designed by the team designed by one of the TWTTER customers of an external party, is designed to introduce a new type of timeline, such as Twitter’s, where all updates are passed. There are also more advanced additional tools that you can use to create this schedule – such as determining the content that must be mute and any to “conceal”, or collapse – so that you can choose it if you want to reduce the screen space.
The latter can be used to improve both the aesthetics and vitality of your schedule. For example, you may want to put political topics so that you do not overwhelm your screen while passing or spoiling your favorite TV programs.
After adding social accounts, RSS extracts, blogs, podcasts, and more that you want to display within Tapestry, you can then set up your schedule, as well as additional time schedules, and make a dedicated offer for this information. For example, you cannot have a timetable that focuses only on Apple news, blogs, podcasts, or one for your social networks, such as Bluesky and Mastodon.
To get the best use of Tapestry, you should think about the type of information and updates you want to follow and how you want to see it organized. Shopping everything can be in one loud extract due to all social application updates. Your time tables are mainly a copy of the custom feed (similar to the extracts of Bluezki, but with the ability to withdraw from multiple services, not only one). This means that you will be in the function of a feed creator, not just the consumer – at least until the ecosystem of the most powerful developer reaches.
Feed and conductors
Although it seems that Tapestry is trying to scratch itching that the adopter may enjoy early on the Internet, it is that its assembly for all your content in time tables can feel compensation at times, and some of its user interface options need more polishing .
For example, the default TAPESTRY TAPESTRY to open the Feeds within the app when choosing the “original” option from the “More” menu (three degrees) in individual posts.
Also, getting rid of the ability to communicate with the original content with an additional click does not make this the best application for people who want to quickly participate in social conversations while passing. If you open the items inside the application, you will need to log in to the social network to share. You will likely want to set this to open feed in “Safari”, so Tapestry opens the IOS application directly associated (such as Bluesky) where you can like, reply or republish.
Unfortunately, this means that Tapestry does not really resolve the need to maintain multiple accounts through multiple applications.
Choosing another design can be confusing that includes the two sections for the application where you can add sources. One is called “extracts” and another called “conductors”. The former allows you to add “content that appears in the schedule”, and the latter means “creation of extracts filling the schedule.” (If you scratch your head in those descriptions, you are not alone. The app needs to provide more interpretation.)
As it turned out, the conductors aim to work similar to additional components or additional functions. They run in a Java Sand Sand It will be built by a society from Third party developers Those who want to extend the ecosystem texture with their new extracts. Unfortunately, these conductors cannot include sources such as Facebook, Instagram, X or others that do not offer open summaries.
The extension application is a smart idea but can be pushed down the project’s road map. Initially, the team should focus on the hypothesis test Want To display information from all over the web, not just the social network, as “time schedules” in the first place. Are users? Want RSS, podcasts, social media and other mixed services, instead of using separate applications?
A transitional step or the future?
Tapestry is not the only one who thinks about the situation of users who control their extracts and sources of news and information.
The latest social applications such as Bluesky to the Meta threads provided the concept of custom summons, while startups such as Graze provides advanced nutrition building tools, and Flipboard provided a new application called Surf to build custom summaries of all services. Unlike Tapestry’s, the Surf user interface allows you to display the extracts that can be nominated to be seen in different formats – watch, read, or listen – or you can choose to see everything built into one, depending on the tab that determines it.
Other applications such as Veed and Reeder have also appeared to address similar problems about the consumption of the summary.
One of the problems that these solutions aim to address is that open social networks today work on different protocols. Mastodon, Pixelfed, and others used ActivitypubBluesky and an increasing number of customers embrace its primary protocol, In the protocol. Meanwhile, old news sites, blogs and podcasts distribute their updates via open protocol RSS.
Currently, bridges are designed to connect networks like Bluesky and Mastodon, and social applications such as Threads with Activitypub, while WordPress blogs and news platforms like Ghost operate to join the open social web known as Fediverse, via ACTIVITYPUB.
This leaves us in a transitional period where you can not only choose your favorite app and expect to see everything.
Instead, we are given tools to integrate extracts and sources, but we see appropriate. But some of these efforts feel temporary measures as a new more open internet – as everything is ultimately connected – is still under the building.
