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Re:Maybe Bluesky Has "Won" by homebrewer on Friday November 15, 2024 @05:40PM (#42152080)
This was solved 20 years ago with RSS, I guess it's about time for someone to rediscover the idea and reimplement something like it, push it like a great new invention, and make a couple of billions in the process.
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Re:Maybe Bluesky Has "Won" by johnnyanmac on Friday November 15, 2024 @05:43PM (#42152112)
It was solved 20 years ago. But companies unsolved it by deciding to de-prioritize or even remove such RSS API's.

Getting around that requires some heavy and expensive scraping (compared to a lightweight API to hook into), and as we're seeing right now companies are at each other's necks in real time over scraping.

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Re:Maybe Bluesky Has "Won" by PhasmaFelis on Friday November 15, 2024 @05:45PM (#42152131)
Good point. If Discord can make billions by essentially reinventing IRC...
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Re:Maybe Bluesky Has "Won" by hiatus on Saturday November 16, 2024 @09:58AM (#42156742)
If setting it up was as easy as posting a tweet, sure. My parents don't even know what RSS is but they have heard of Twitter.
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