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g. Reader had a reshare feature that made your account a RSS feed. Your peers/friends/colleagues would feed from you and to you. Together with reshared count,
by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
g. Reader had a reshare feature that made your account a RSS feed. Your peers/friends/colleagues would feed from you and to you.
Together with reshared count, it implemented a very effective peer review mechanism.
Having high adoption, it provided me very good feeds - nothing comes close now.
- Andrex 6y agoExactly. It was basically a share-ier Twitter long before Twitter, built on an open standard (RSS.) You could subscribe to every news website's RSS feed and at the time, most would offer their full content in your feed. You had incredible power to curate and refine your feed based on your interests and social circle.
- eeZah7Ux 6y agoAmazingly, that pattern is very easy to implement and yet nothing across Mastodon/Lemmy/Reddit comes even close.