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Re:VCard and RSS as an alternative to social media by sham1 on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @01:27AM (#39824510)
There's nothing in here that would technically preclude one from building a nice UI around this and make this have a nice UX where most people wouldn't even need to know that any given protocol like this is being used.

The social media conglomerates would have been able to figure it out instead of building their own proprietary systems for this stuff, if they had wanted to. But, well, they didn't want to.

Re:VCard and RSS as an alternative to social media by ivan_gammel on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @06:11AM (#39826021)
> There's nothing in here that would technically preclude one from building a nice UI around this and make this have a nice UX

If it were so easy, we would see it already - there’s sufficient demand for this kind of solution. Engineers and STEM graduates in general often fail to understand that technology isn’t always the main constraint. There are harder problems in the world to solve, that actually define the experience. It’s people, it’s regulations and liabilities, it’s financial planning and outcomes etc etc. There exists a technology for many wonderful things, yet we don’t see them and it is not corporations to blame.