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Re:The Feed Is Dying by AndrewKemendo on Monday May 02, 2016 @01:30AM (#11609352)
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.

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Re:The Feed Is Dying by meric on Monday May 02, 2016 @02:02AM (#11609436)
>> 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.

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Re:The Feed Is Dying by Kdparker on Monday May 02, 2016 @07:36PM (#11616686)
However, with gmail filtering out email from untrusted domains, you could argue that you actually can't build an email host that can send emails to all of your friends.
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