Re:Upspin – Another option for file sharing
by webmaven on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @09:20PM
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Yeah, this use case can be solved in the first place by FB making it possible to share outside their walled garden, and Twitter ingesting the appropriate URL and creating thumbnails to display inline for non-Twitter images.
No new tech is needed, only the will to open up the walled gardens.
By the way, this was sort of taking shape for a while with 3rd-party aggregators ("all your social media in one feed!"), but that approach just withered away with the growth of FB into an unstoppable juggernaut.
EDIT: Which isn't to say that Upspin doesn't have some very interesting uses, but the barrier of UGC walled gardens not wanting to open up in the first place makes this particular use-case moot.
No new tech is needed, only the will to open up the walled gardens.
By the way, this was sort of taking shape for a while with 3rd-party aggregators ("all your social media in one feed!"), but that approach just withered away with the growth of FB into an unstoppable juggernaut.
EDIT: Which isn't to say that Upspin doesn't have some very interesting uses, but the barrier of UGC walled gardens not wanting to open up in the first place makes this particular use-case moot.