[RattlesnakeJake]

As much as I roll my eyes at "If your {thing} doesn't have {thing}"-style gatekeeping, this does fit well with the fact that a reversion to the old blogs+RSS setup would solve a lot of the current criticisms of the social media world. RSS decouples the reader from the author AND the platform, allowing a "News Feed" that isn't tied to a single publisher or the whims of its algorithm design.

[RattlesnakeJake]

In fact, I'd go so far as to say that we should've created a similarly-consistent standard for forums. If we had solved the problem of users wanting central access to multiple forums without putting them under a single provider, we could've entirely avoided the existence of Reddit.