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DonHopkins on Dec 18, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now

Can't we all just go back to syndicating RSS?

It was so simple in those days.

Except for that time before they got html escaping figured out and some joker put an unclosed <BLINK> tag in their title, and the entire blogoverse started blinking.

_ea1k on Dec 19, 2022 [–]

Agreed, but centralized services will always be easier to use and people drift toward the easiest solution.

People value freedom a little less than convenience.

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