Gonna paint with a REALLY broad brush here; but I think that a LOT of the same people I see lamenting the web closing off into silos are the same people who, over the last decade or so, helped push everything into said closed silos.
this thought is a result of a conversation I had with an investor I was building a site for. He was really upset that over the years his RSS habits had gotten less and less useful to him. I find a little ironic justice that people who built this closed off ecosystem in pursuit of 10x returns are also feeling some pain as a result.
Guess I am just petty. Also I really fucking miss Trillian, RSS readers, and podcasts that didn't care where you were listening to them from; and I don't think I will ever stop resenting this industry for breaking that.
this thought is a result of a conversation I had with an investor I was building a site for. He was really upset that over the years his RSS habits had gotten less and less useful to him. I find a little ironic justice that people who built this closed off ecosystem in pursuit of 10x returns are also feeling some pain as a result.
Guess I am just petty. Also I really fucking miss Trillian, RSS readers, and podcasts that didn't care where you were listening to them from; and I don't think I will ever stop resenting this industry for breaking that.