jacobobryant

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You can help unbundle social media(tfos.co)
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New industries come from crazy people (2021)(palladiummag.com)
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by jacobobryant 4y ago
Out of the many complaints I've seen leveled at Substack, I honestly can't think of a single time where someone was complaining about their default use of single opt-in. That's not to say you're wrong--however, as best a
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by jacobobryant 4y ago
Ah, well that's encouraging then! Perhaps you can add that query to an automated report/dashboard in case the conversion rate decreases as the service grows. Thanks for making this in any case!
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by jacobobryant 4y ago
Email isn't terribly expensive to send--a common rate is roughly $0.80/1,000 emails. It's absolutely dirt cheap ($0.10/1,000 emails) if you can get past the application for AWS SES. (I didn't--don't know the ma
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by jacobobryant 4y ago
This looks really nice. I've been fiddling around building newsletter-adjacent products for a few years, and I've been wanting a simple Substack-alternative* that's good for casual use so that I can recommend it to users. Can
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by jacobobryant 4y ago
Yep! You can think of email as a version of RSS that regular people actually know how to use ;)
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Misunderestimating Openness(openfuture.eu)
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Twitter vs. Taamneh in the Supreme Court: What’s at Stake(knightcolumbia.org)
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Cross-Platform RSS Recommendations(tfos.co)
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by jacobobryant 4y ago
I think it's worth doing! Just make sure the posts link back to the original so people can see the context if the comment looks interesting.
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by jacobobryant 4y ago
See my other comments: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33990568 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33976289
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by jacobobryant 4y ago
The dumbness is a feature. See my other comments: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33990568 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33990738 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33976
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by jacobobryant 4y ago
Thanks! Feel free to email me if you want any ideas for contributing; I have a never-ending supply :). Email's in my profile.
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by jacobobryant 4y ago
Nothing in the proposal is at odds with building mobile apps, and yes I would encourage people to do that.
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by jacobobryant 4y ago
The proposal isn't to make a twitter clone that just happens to use RSS under the hood. I'm basically just saying we should take the existing trend of smaller, focused communities (like you find on slack or discord) and try to add
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by jacobobryant 4y ago
Yep--a core feature of Yakread (the reading app I'm developing, mentioned in the article) is that it uses algorithmic curation.
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by jacobobryant 4y ago
In this proposal, interactivity would happen within the community apps (discord, slack, forums, whatever new ones are built in the future) and not over the protocol. You use a reading app to get a feed with posts with the various communitie
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by jacobobryant 4y ago
Agreed, hence the importance of treating RSS as an implementation detail rather than a user-facing feature. I'd also love to see more reading apps experiment with algorithmic recommendation too; that's been one of my own focuses f
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by jacobobryant 4y ago
I think interactions should be done within community apps. No need to do it over a protocol. See my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33976289
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by jacobobryant 4y ago
Agreed, and this is actually my "top level" recommendation for anyone building apps in this space: if you make a reading app, make it read from anything; if you make a publishing app, make it readable anywhere; etc. Don't fix
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by jacobobryant 4y ago
Yes--there's also plenty of money being spent on newsletter advertising. I make about $2k/month in revenue from that myself.[1] Publishers have lots of flexibility on how to monetize; you can do ads, or paid subscriptions, or a mi
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by jacobobryant 4y ago
Easier consumption is pretty much it, yes. Specifically, it'd make it easier to stay engaged with publishers and communities even if they aren't part of a centralized platform, which means that people who develop publishing and co
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by jacobobryant 4y ago
Youtube does still have feeds. The bandwidth can be reduced if readers use the If-None-Match and If-Modified-Since headers when requesting feeds (so if the feed hasn't been updated, the server can return an empty response). I also imag
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by jacobobryant 4y ago
Very nice--I like all the "Follow in" links. The one for Feedly in particular is pretty much what I'm envisioning, since it shows a page for the feed itself even if you're not signed into Feedly, instead of just redirect
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by jacobobryant 4y ago
Yep, I'd certainly recommend not adding new metadata extensions without first checking for existing ones that would suffice. I'm interested if you have any reading recommendations? Indie Microblogging[1] is on my reading list. My
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by jacobobryant 4y ago
Thanks--and I'm glad to hear you're working on access control. My current approach to that hairball has been basically to work on everything else first and think about it later. Maybe it's not actually a hairball, but the fea
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by jacobobryant 4y ago
This is cool! Other People's Meaningful Links is great :). I've subscribed to your feed as well. I actually haven't worried about the RSS icon on my site since I figure people who use a feed reader can just copy and paste the
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by jacobobryant 4y ago
I think this is the same thing I was trying to address with this paragraph at the end: > Another suggestion: provide browser extensions and iOS/Android sharing menu items so that it's easy to open an web page in the reading app
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by jacobobryant 4y ago
Maybe that'd work too! I'm honestly not very familiar with ActivityStreams. My main concern is figuring out a lowest common denominator/the simplest thing that works, and I think RSS is sufficient. I'll have to do some m

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