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I have an idea! An app that aggregates all of your different social networking apps (think AIM, but for social networks). When you talk with your friends, each
by geoduck14 6y ago
I have an idea!
An app that aggregates all of your different social networking apps (think AIM, but for social networks). When you talk with your friends, each of your messages get sent to different social networks -round robin style- this only gives each social network a portion of the conversation.
Your friends must, of course, also use the same tool to stitch the conversation back together.
- Zuider 6y agoSocial media aggregators intended to post messages to many clients have been tried before, but they have consistently failed because the social media companies, notably Twitter, changed their APIs to frustrate the possibility.
- AnthonyMouse 6y agoThere used to exist applications like this, at the time (i.e. the 90s) when apps didn't have automatic updates. What happens now is that the same company that runs the server and makes the official app updates them both at the same time to change the protocol, causing the app that supports all of them to break until they update it to support the new secret protocol. Then people stop using it because it's breaking all the time.
- ccleve 6y agoSeems similar to spread spectrum radio signals, also known as frequency-hopping. By hopping from frequency to frequency in a way that only the sender and the receiver know, you can avoid both obstacles and eavesdropping.