We should replace Facebook with personal websites

Re:We should replace Facebook with personal websites by stcredzero on Thursday December 20, 2018 @02:28PM (#18728203)

When i try to think of what my ideal social media would look like, it always ends up sounding similar to an RSS feed, with the ability to lookup and requiring the other user's approval to get the actual content

That last phrase could add a lot of friction.

you could use different clients, some could give you recommendations for events,etc based on your subscriptions if you so choose

That would indeed replace Facebook. However, then you have a chicken and egg problem. Those clients won't be much good unless people provide data by using them, and people won't use them because they don't already have the data to provide good recommendations.

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Re:We should replace Facebook with personal websites by viraptor on Thursday December 20, 2018 @04:35PM (#18729357)

There's already a lot of aggregators which are partially-social. For example theoldreader tells me that someone likes a specific post from RSS feed. Not sure if they have recommendations, but they could certainly generate them if they wanted.

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Re:We should replace Facebook with personal websites by stcredzero on Friday December 21, 2018 @12:26PM (#18734787)

One thing that could be really cool, would be the UI of RSS readers applied to social media. Like, you could have the ads and recommendations in their own branch of the tree.

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