> Why aren't the social functionality of identity / friends / followers / newsfeed / etc. built into browsers in a standardized way? Newsfeed is RSS/Atom. Ide

> Why aren't the social functionality of identity / friends / followers / newsfeed / etc. built into browsers in a standardized way? Newsfeed is RSS/Atom. Identity / friends / followers are really one package, and it isn't a thing browsers can solve on their own, because people want the ability to do password resets etc. Also, decentralized identity is somewhat the opposite of this anyway -- people don't want to use the same "identity" for their parents and their friends and their boss. The best way to do this is for sites to use email as identity, because it's common and gives you password resets, but people can create more than one and separate them as they like. Which the technology to do already exists, but Facebook and Google made it easy and the free software equivalent takes several hours to get running. Which we could fix, but haven't (yet).