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In addition to comments, I would also add trackbacks [1], and RSS feeds. Trackbacks are mostly dead now, even more than RSS feeds. But back when it was a thing
by p4bl0 3y ago
In addition to comments, I would also add trackbacks [1], and RSS feeds.
Trackbacks are mostly dead now, even more than RSS feeds. But back when it was a thing, I found it quite awesome and it's a feature that I always implemented in my homemade blog engines. This was the only time we had an actually decentralized social network, even if it wasn't called that at the time.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trackback https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trackback
- gwern 3y ago(Yes, all useful but elicited by the success of blogs - you don't need trackbacks or RSS feeds until there's a large enough number of blogs linking each other & updating regularly that it's worth such infrastructure. So not reasons for the original success.)