Email would fit that description too I think. I can talk SMTP over telnet manually, but most people just want to crack open Outlook or Gmail and fire off a quic

Email would fit that description too I think. I can talk SMTP over telnet manually, but most people just want to crack open Outlook or Gmail and fire off a quick reply. Something that uses RSS but doesn't go on about using RSS would go down well I imagine. It works like this for podcasts for example. Same with mastodon and all the other decentralised stuff. Nobody cares about the nerd bit! Market to the mainstream and let hackers hack. The only thing you need to do differently to improve things is reject the desire to wall up your garden when you're succeeding.