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Alex Kirk

@alex@alex.kirk.at


 **272** posts

 **280** followers

 Friends Plugin

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   ## 󠀁[Old News but still true as ever: Facebook and Instagram are harming the Open Web](https://alex.kirk.at/2021/08/31/old-news-but-still-true-as-ever-facebook-and-instagram-are-harming-the-open-web/)󠁿
   
 * A big motivation for building the Friends Plugin is to be able to follow what
   my friends and family are up to. Probably the most important “follow technology”
   is good old RSS. While mostly used for public posts, there are many examples 
   of how it can deliver posts not meant for the public: the solution…
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   ## 󠀁[We’re all using RSS Readers all the time…](https://alex.kirk.at/2021/04/28/were-all-using-rss-readers-all-the-time/)󠁿
   
 * … we just don’t realize it. If you think about it, most of the social network
   services are specialized RSS Readers that combine consuming with creating. (Just
   to be clear, these social networks don’t provide RSS feeds, what I’m saying is
   that what they do could be done with RSS feeds.) Take Facebook, for example:…

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