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It would be good to be able to share stuff between social media and other internet services. It's just that it's me who wishes to decide myself what to share, n
by yason 15y ago
It would be good to be able to share stuff between social media and other internet services. It's just that it's me who wishes to decide myself what to share, not somebody else.
Conversely, it would be terrific if I could just use Google+, Diaspora, Facebook or any other network and be in touch with somebody who's not in Google+, Diaspora, Facebook or some other network, and share statuses from one network to other networks where I have friends.
But something like that goes so deeply against the fixation that these networks need to be rivals that it won't happen soon. Till then, it's quite sad. I have most people in Facebook but I only log on to Facebook on a need basis via incognito browser window. I would like to hang out on Google+ but roughly speaking only my nerd friends are there so this cuts my connections down to one subgroup. Diaspora would be nice now that their site seems to be more in working order but nobody I know is there.
Maybe it'll all converge back to irc+screen at some point, having come a full circle in 20 years or so.
- pestaa 15y agoI was born in '90, so the good days with IRC and quality mailing lists had passed while I was growing up. I wasn't there, yet I somehow still miss it.
- robgough 15y agoIt's still there... and still quite active. Most "projects" and things have a channel somewhere, quite a lot on freenode - including our very own hackernews (irc.freenode.net #startups)