Years ago https://web.hypothes.is/ used to let one annotate any website, but it appears now they are focused on only student/educational usage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothes.is
There was a plugin that allowed highlighting text on any web page, adding comments, and having threaded conversations based on groups… it was kind of cool, too bad it didn’t take off.
https://ucatt.arizona.edu/news/using-free-version-hypothesis
EDIT 1: I’ll be darned, the Chrome extension still exists… https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hypothesis-web-pdf-annota/bjfhmglciegochdpefhhlphglcehbmek
EDIT 2: I found my old account and the test annotations I’d done (and group definitions) still work! Guess this is still a working thing, worth exploring more.
This is awesome.
I think the answer to why there isn’t a modern alternative is under the History tab on that Wiki page.
Fun idea though, I had never heard of that one.
Easy to police now with AI, if someone gets rich send me some bitcoin im poor (:
A plugin that just checks to see if Lemmy has any posts pointing to the current URL would be pretty nice. So I can go and get secondary opinions if I want.
Not sure how much stress that would put on servers though. I guess probably not that much if searches can just be exact matches on URLs.
wouldn’t be much stress really.
I’m currently building something with fediverse integration so this is a great idea and something i’ll look into. Basically you would be logged into an instance (lemmy.world) and if you’re navigating a to a site or even an RSS feed you could see if there’s any relevant links to said article/story/whatever back to lemmy.
right now I have a feed built that allows you to log into all your instances (mastodon, lemmy, peertube, etc) and displays all the content you’re subscribed to in a single feed. So adding in what you’ve suggested would be a great feature.
Haha, sick. Count me in if you want a beta tester :)
I’d love this. Maybe a filter for subscribed communitied but otherwise sounds like a great way to interact with a community around articles
There used to be a really niche version of this idea back in the day created by _why the lucky stiff in the ruby programming community. It was called hoodwink’d, at the time it felt like the way of the future, like a mobile underground peanut gallery. _why was doxxed and nuked his online presence before it ever took off
I fear after asking the question, could this be used as a weaponized bubble machine?
I got the wiki data extension to try and have this effect, but that didn’t really work for the case. Still use to categorize stuff though.
Or do they still exist?
