was literally just thinking about what Google Reader could have been this morning. Imagine the antitrust ruling where Google Reader is now an open source project. Imagine the world where every product that gets bought and killed, instead of remaining the property of the buyer it just becomes public domain or off-patent?
@thesquirrelfish the problem wasn’t the tech, the problem was that they were trusted by an ecosystem as stewards of a centralizing resource, abandoned that responsibility and ultimately destroyed that ecosystem.
What they did to reader they’re currently doing to search.
it's interesting to think of mass corporate consumerism in the same way. Big investments to centralize/globalize supply chains & providing service at free or discounted rates in order to get the largest audience/customer base per employee, but the way it fails to be profitable, so ends up refocusing on high net worth consumers and abandoning the general market, while in the meantime the OG source has gone out of business because of all the VC/investor funded cheap deals that were available during the mass expansion period. Cars, gas, housing, newspapers, local television, mom & pop businesses, even farming... Is every problem the same problem at the root of it?
this is funny. I went to Feedly for a while, since they were pretty similar to gReader, but then I came across the news app for #Nextcloud and have been using that as the aggregator with local clients (currently #RSSGuard) ever since.
And I mention this only because I noticed a new Social app that looks to be an ActivityPub-enabled something. It's in beta and I'm not exactly sure of the author's vision, but that journey kind of looks like the culmination of your left branch. 😆
I am, indeed, still mad about Google Reader. I'm pleased to see that RSS is making a bit of a comeback these days, and -- just in case you didn't know -- you can follow feeds on Mastodon, using @birb.
My memory is Google Reader was more of an RSS feed follower. So deploy tt-rss and you're good to go. I like a lighter UI than tt-rss's native one, so maintain a fork of FeedMonkey:
wohali
in reply to mhoye • • •mhoye
in reply to wohali • • •Parade du Grotesque 💀
in reply to mhoye • • •squifish
in reply to mhoye • • •Imagine the antitrust ruling where Google Reader is now an open source project.
Imagine the world where every product that gets bought and killed, instead of remaining the property of the buyer it just becomes public domain or off-patent?
mhoye
in reply to squifish • • •@thesquirrelfish the problem wasn’t the tech, the problem was that they were trusted by an ecosystem as stewards of a centralizing resource, abandoned that responsibility and ultimately destroyed that ecosystem.
What they did to reader they’re currently doing to search.
squifish
in reply to mhoye • • •Big investments to centralize/globalize supply chains & providing service at free or discounted rates in order to get the largest audience/customer base per employee, but the way it fails to be profitable, so ends up refocusing on high net worth consumers and abandoning the general market, while in the meantime the OG source has gone out of business because of all the VC/investor funded cheap deals that were available during the mass expansion period.
Cars, gas, housing, newspapers, local television, mom & pop businesses, even farming... Is every problem the same problem at the root of it?
silverwizard
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in reply to silverwizard • • •silverwizard
in reply to mhoye • •like this
Justin Fitzsimmons and Hypolite Petovan like this.
Kevin Neely
in reply to mhoye • • •this is funny. I went to Feedly for a while, since they were pretty similar to gReader, but then I came across the news app for #Nextcloud and have been using that as the aggregator with local clients (currently #RSSGuard) ever since.
And I mention this only because I noticed a new Social app that looks to be an ActivityPub-enabled something. It's in beta and I'm not exactly sure of the author's vision, but that journey kind of looks like the culmination of your left branch. 😆
Social - Apps - App Store - Nextcloud
apps.nextcloud.combenny
in reply to mhoye • • •Stacey
in reply to mhoye • • •faraiwe
in reply to mhoye • • •Is this wrong?
NO... absolutely not wrong.
Bill Hooker
in reply to mhoye • • •vandys
in reply to mhoye • • •My memory is Google Reader was more of an RSS feed follower. So deploy tt-rss and you're good to go. I like a lighter UI than tt-rss's native one, so maintain a fork of FeedMonkey:
sources.vsta.org:7100/FeedMonk…
But there are lots of other clients for tt-rss
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_Tin…
web-based feedreader
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)mhoye
in reply to vandys • • •Umami AF
in reply to mhoye • • •testman
in reply to mhoye • • •commafeed.com/
github.com/Athou/commafeed
GitHub - Athou/commafeed: Google Reader inspired self-hosted personal RSS reader.
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