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Re:Facebook Research Warned of ‘Tipping Point’ Threat to Cor... by coldpie on Thursday July 25, 2019 @11:07AM (#20526006)
> I would love a platform that is just original content (text and original media), and where any links are just text WITHOUT previews.

I've got this vague idea in my head of a WordPress plugin that cooperates with other WordPress installations with the plugin, such that your own blog could turn into a social network. So you publish content to your blog, and your blog pulls content from your friends' blogs with the plugin, and you can all comment on each other's posts and stuff. Tack on some kind of slick mobile app for uploading pictures and the like. I dunno.

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Re:Facebook Research Warned of ‘Tipping Point’ Threat to Cor... by Zak on Thursday July 25, 2019 @11:22AM (#20526142)
Did you just invent webrings and RSS?
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Re:Facebook Research Warned of ‘Tipping Point’ Threat to Cor... by jgroszko on Thursday July 25, 2019 @12:01PM (#20526497)
I think they're reinventing ActivityPub
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Re:Facebook Research Warned of ‘Tipping Point’ Threat to Cor... by coldpie on Thursday July 25, 2019 @12:03PM (#20526519)
Indeed, that might be a good fit for the networking layer. So it could be an ActivityPub server/client built on top of WordPress. Quick, someone give me $50M to build a product with zero monetization options.
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Re:Facebook Research Warned of ‘Tipping Point’ Threat to Cor... by coldpie on Thursday July 25, 2019 @12:01PM (#20526502)
Hahah! Well, modern tech is all about re-inventing what we already had in the 90s isn't it?

But seriously what I have in mind is a lot more interactive than that. Roughly, your blog becomes your "account". You can follow other "accounts" (blogs), and you give other "accounts" permission to post on your blog in the form of comments, etc. When you change details on your account, like a profile image or whatever, it will get updated on all the linked accounts that follow you. I dunno, it all works pretty elegantly in my head.

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Re:Facebook Research Warned of ‘Tipping Point’ Threat to Cor... by acdw on Thursday July 25, 2019 @12:33PM (#20526787)
Look into the Indieweb[1] and Webmentions[2]. Still really early days, but they're what you're after, I think. Well, if you're talking about commenting on others' posts. I'd think to follow, you'd use RSS or ActivityPub.

[1]: https://indieweb.org/ [2]: https://indieweb.org/Webmention

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Re:Facebook Research Warned of ‘Tipping Point’ Threat to Cor... by pjc50 on Thursday July 25, 2019 @01:46PM (#20527612)
It was called "trackback", and it never quite solved the spam problem.
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