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by thinkingemote 2875 days ago
There's several browser plugins that work that way, I think the main obstacle is you need everyone on it. also that theres not a lot of activity spread across the whole web, resulting in stale discussions.

Google reader I think had this social thing built into it. It wasn't just an RSS reader.

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> There's several browser plugins that work that way, I think the main obstacle is you need everyone on it.

That was the basic decision of making hyperlinks work one way, instead of two way like it was envisioned by others, eg Ted Nelson's Xanadu.