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I'm still surprised that no one has proposed a protocol to replace Facebook / Twitter. If a real time RSS system existed then both of those companies don't real
by pg_bot 9y ago
I'm still surprised that no one has proposed a protocol to replace Facebook / Twitter. If a real time RSS system existed then both of those companies don't really need to exist. In fact, I think you could mock up a service just using SMTP that would work exactly as both those companies do today.
- dude01 9y agoThe darn network effects keep people on the existing services and off of new ones. There have been protocols, like https://matrix.org/ https://matrix.org/ (newer) and https://xmpp.org/ https://xmpp.org/ (older) . If Facebook and Twitter were forced to interoperate with any of these other protocols then you could have a gradual migration. That's why you sure won't see that happen!
- davidcbc 9y agoThe problem is you're trying to solve a problem that most Facebook users don't care about. The hurdles to replacing Facebook or Twitter aren't technical, they are social. The killer feature of any social network is people using it.
- zeveb 9y ago> I'm still surprised that no one has proposed a protocol to replace Facebook / Twitter. Isn't that what WebSub[0] (formerly PubSubHubbub) is for? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebSub https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebSub
- xj9 9y agolike ActivityPub? or OStstus? https://joinmastodon.org https://joinmastodon.org https://pleroma.social/ https://pleroma.social/
- s73ver_ 9y agoThe tech to do what Facebook does (more or less) is easy. The issue is with the network. It's why most of the "Facebook competitors" died. What good is having the ability to receive feeds like that if no one I'm interested is broadcasting?