So Iâm trying to do the IndieWeb thing, hence this blog. I donât know what Iâm doing yet, but we shall see.
RSS is kind of an invisible technology. People call RSS dead because you canât see it. Thereâs no feed, no login, no analytics. RSS feels subsurface.
But I believe weâre living in a golden age of RSS. Blogging is booming. My feed reader has 280 feeds in it.
How is all this social? Itâs just slow social. If you want to respond to me, publish something linking to what I said. If I want to respond to you, I publish something linking to what you wrote. Old school. Good school. Itâs high-effort, but I think the required effort is a positive thing for a social network. Forces you to think more.
TwitÂterâs only conÂcluÂsion can be abandonment: an overÂdue MySpace-ification. I am totally conÂfiÂdent about this prediction, but thatâs an easy confidence, because in the long run, weâre all MySpace-ified.
What Robin said.