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I think this is actually achievable with tech we have today. Reimagine Reddit as a browser plugin that lets you read and write comments on any url. Posts are
by jayd16 3y ago
I think this is actually achievable with tech we have today. Reimagine Reddit as a browser plugin that lets you read and write comments on any url.
Posts are shared in a reshareabke fashion through email groups, torrents, IPFS, etc.
We have the technology. It's just a centrally hosted aggregator is easier.
- Izkata 3y ago> Reimagine Reddit as a browser plugin that lets you read and write comments on any url. That did actually exist years ago. I don't remember what it was called though. I think you were able to pin your comment to a specific part of the page too, not just generically on the URL.
- cxr 3y agoHypothes.is is alive and well.
- Izkata 3y agoThis doesn't look even close to what I'm remembering. Doesn't surprise me there were multiple such things though.
- mike_hearn 3y agoAre you thinking of Google SideWiki? It let people add comments and annotations to any web page. It was scrapped, one reason was that webmasters hated it. They viewed it as a sort of embarrassing graffiti scrawl and source of spam they had to "manage" for brand reasons, but couldn't. For example journos didn't like people being able to annotate their articles to disagree with them.