Creating openness is not good enough. There were business reasons to support every long lasting open technology, and with the dominance of proprietary social media platforms, that business reason (for RSS at least) is dead.
The web opened up e commerce, and modern social media lowered the barrier to entry for online communities.
Its the same problem cryptography has, if its not dead simple and obviously useful don't expect it to stick around (at least at mass appeal)
Yeah I was looking forward to reading through what he thought could be done to try and turn the tide on the issue, but to essentially just write 'fuck y'all' kinda made it feel like someone rambling on.
I was thinking "this is a great analysis and inspiring call to arms, I can't wait to see what Marco's proposing". Then I scrolled down and realised the call to arms was "keep doing what you're doing". Um.
Yes, the "fuck you" and the last paragraph are definitely anti-climatic. You do not need such a post to say that. Of course, Larry stated very clearly that if something does not help + then something must disappear...
Creating openness is not good enough. There were business reasons to support every long lasting open technology, and with the dominance of proprietary social media platforms, that business reason (for RSS at least) is dead.
The web opened up e commerce, and modern social media lowered the barrier to entry for online communities.
Its the same problem cryptography has, if its not dead simple and obviously useful don't expect it to stick around (at least at mass appeal)