Re:The Feed Is Dying
by AndrewKemendo on Monday May 02, 2016 @01:30AM
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Nobody is arguing that you can't set up your own system. You can build your own version of fb/twt etc... if you wanted.
The distinction is that 99.9% of consumers and an increasing number of organizations don't want to do it in house and would rather let someone else do it.
Again, it's not about capability, it's about what people actually are doing.
>> You can build your own version of fb/twt etc.
You couldn't build your own version of fb that can view posts from your friends.
You can setup your own email service to view emails from your friends who are using @gmail.
That's an important distinction.
Of course being user owned, by definition users should be allowed to outsource their email service to large companies, and they do, because it's a lot cheaper that way.
But an email server they own themselves, with their own rules, own display preferences, compatible with billions of other email accounts, is well within their reach. And millions of people do just that.