<story><title>To Hell with Facebook (2021)</title><url>https://www.damninteresting.com/to-hell-with-facebook/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mostlysimilar</author><text>It would be nice if we could evacuate walled-garden social media platforms and return to individual websites&amp;#x2F;blogs + RSS. RSS clients that empower the user to follow, sort, filter, and control their &amp;quot;news feed&amp;quot; of content from individual websites&amp;#x2F;blogs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>foresto</author><text>I would love this, or something like it, but I don&amp;#x27;t think it can happen until hosting is effectively free and managing it is dead easy.&lt;p&gt;Not everyone has access to a $100 server, reliable power, and unmetered internet, let alone the knowledge and time to be their own sysadmin.&lt;p&gt;What if organizations in a position to do so, from mobile phone operators to ISPs to public libraries, provided some basic level of content hosting with standardized content management APIs? People with the means and motivation could host their own, but most people wouldn&amp;#x27;t have to. Perhaps that could pave the way for universal front-end tools and independence from the social media giants?&lt;p&gt;Related: It looks like someone is trying to address the issue by layering a social media experience atop an existing distributed messaging system (Matrix): &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.kombuchaprivacy.com&amp;#x2F;circles&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.kombuchaprivacy.com&amp;#x2F;circles&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>To Hell with Facebook (2021)</title><url>https://www.damninteresting.com/to-hell-with-facebook/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mostlysimilar</author><text>It would be nice if we could evacuate walled-garden social media platforms and return to individual websites&amp;#x2F;blogs + RSS. RSS clients that empower the user to follow, sort, filter, and control their &amp;quot;news feed&amp;quot; of content from individual websites&amp;#x2F;blogs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nonrandomstring</author><text>I like your use of the word &amp;quot;evacuate&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Recently I came upon the the phrase &amp;quot;cloud repatriation&amp;quot;, which seemed
a fresh angle on a word that&amp;#x27;s fallen on hard times.&lt;p&gt;Evacuate! Yes we need a Dunkirk for those helpless souls left on the
beaches of Facebook. The idea that they&amp;#x27;re going to swim, one by one,
back the safety of personal web pages is silly.</text></comment>