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Re:We should replace Facebook with personal websites by snackematician on Thursday December 20, 2018 @11:52AM (#18726521)
Maybe more of an email list than an RSS feed then? You can control who is a member of the list to receive content. It would be cool if social media could be done through email, sort of like Usenet.
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Re:We should replace Facebook with personal websites by saucoide on Thursday December 20, 2018 @12:01PM (#18726631)
Yes, but ideally it would be 2-ways, and there is still the problem with discovery, more in general i just think there shouldn't be social media sites, "social media" should be a protocol
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Re:We should replace Facebook with personal websites by wasdfff on Thursday December 20, 2018 @12:48PM (#18727152)
You mean like newsletters? No need to reinvent the wheel.
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Re:We should replace Facebook with personal websites by schnevets on Thursday December 20, 2018 @01:13PM (#18727411)
Email/newsletters are a promising protocol, but you would have to rethink the UX to be more like a newsfeed, where a concise version of the message is shown once, and then automatically marked as read.

I have noticed friends reverting back to RSVP e-mails via Paperless Post Flyer. I'm still not sure if one person in this social group is not on Facebook, causing the change, but it has been a welcome adjustment. If Facebook Events can be replaced by an e-mail approach, I don't see why other products can't follow suit.

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Re:We should replace Facebook with personal websites by asdff on Thursday December 20, 2018 @01:40PM (#18727705)
>where a concise version of the message is shown once, and then automatically marked as read.

So like a rule to push it into your newsletter folder?

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