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by XJOKOLAT 3365 days ago
History should be decentralized too, then.

Who remembers RSS feeds? I miss those days. We should have some superior spin on that but for social networks.

Imagine Facebook, but your history/data were your own property. A friend would find you on Facebook, or Ello, or AnythingAnyWhereBook ... add your feed, and done. Then it is up to the Social Networks to make a superior product for you to enjoy your friends data and interaction.

Right now it's about the monopolisation of our data.

Zuckerberg. If you're reading. Your current model is bullshit.
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glenstein 3365 days ago
>Who remembers RSS feeds? I miss those days. We should have some superior spin on that but for social networks.

I think a big missed opportunity for Google on social was the failure to cultivate Google Reader into an open social network (it already had social features), and build each aspect of it on an RSS/OPML-like structure.

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mike-cardwell 3365 days ago
What do you miss about RSS feeds? They're still there... It's very rare that I come across a blog that doesn't have one, even now...
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XJOKOLAT 3365 days ago
You're right, of course. It's possible I'm still pining for my perfectly set-up Google Reader account which I cannot quite replicate. That still hurts! RSS felt ubiquitous (to me) back then.

Anyway, to the point, try using RSS with facebook in the above context.

I hate being locked in - hence I gave up on FB. It's trash to me until it solves this issue.

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flukus 3365 days ago
> Anyway, to the point, try using RSS with facebook in the above context.

For me they're different things. RSS is for things that I want available until I get around to reading them or until I manually mark them as read, this is precisely what I don't want out of facebook.

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Godel_unicode 3365 days ago
I suspect parent was talking about the distributed nature of it. Subscribe to whoever you want, allow anyone to subscribe to you.
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icc97 3365 days ago
My RSSing calmed down, it's just the XKCD feed now. But it still works perfectly.

Intruigingly given how many RSS feeds are out there from WordPress blogs, about the only way I found to get news on WordPress releases is via their RSS feed.

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