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I bet it scared the shit out of Zuck and still does today. Add websub and few more and you have a social network, duh. Decentral. People owned.
by mro_name 5y ago
I bet it scared the shit out of Zuck and still does today.
Add websub and few more and you have a social network, duh. Decentral. People owned.
- dpeck 5y agothis is what Reader was and has always made me even more confused as to why Google killed it off. They had the right start for a unique take on content focused/small group discussion based social networking and the tossed it for “circles”
- cheaprentalyeti 5y agoGoogle itself is part of Big Tech Social Control. They're not willing to engage in services where they're not ultimately in control, like RSS. They suffered in the short term, but if you've struggled to find the RSS feed for a website or a podcast lately, that's exactly what they were trying to achieve.
- Yottaweb 5y ago[dead]
- mro_name 5y agoand so did facebook (=> remember friendfeed).
- stjohnswarts 5y agoTwitter obviously hates it too.
- ymolodtsov 5y agoThat's not social network because there's no interaction between entities and most people wouldn't set up a blog.
- mro_name 5y ago> most people wouldn't set up a blog well, that's the unspoken fallacy: becoming active is cumbersome. But that doesn't have to be, it could be as easy as renting a domain and copying a single file. (Plug: https://demo.mro.name/shaarligo https://demo.mro.name/shaarligo) But if taking a breath is too much of an effort, one may well remain unheard.