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What if we just had sites and RSS-like aggregators? You could subscribe directly to the sources you like. You could then publish the aggregation. In turn you co
by javajosh 3y ago
What if we just had sites and RSS-like aggregators? You could subscribe directly to the sources you like. You could then publish the aggregation. In turn you could subscribe to an aggregator, and perhaps even reaggregate their content, too. In this way we can have a distributed method of "following" content that we like.
Basically this vision is one where everyone run's Google Reader in their browser and, if you're really gung-ho, you republish via some VPS hosted thing. The structure is a little like DNS - a hierarchical database.
- larperdoodle 3y agoDid you just reinvent the fediverse?
- javajosh 3y agoI don't really know. I'm on Mastodon but that doesn't really do anything I mentioned as far as I can tell.
- acidburnNSA 3y agoI'm thinking it'd be nice to make a DB mapping people's twitter ids to their preferred RSS feed in anticipation of this future. Just not sure how to deal with commenting/ feedback/interaction. Guess that's what the fediverse is for.