Controversial opinion: blogs were actually good and the shit that replaced them sucks
@Green_Footballs Honestly don't think a microblogging aggregator *capability* is a bad idea, but it would have been far better for bloggers to use their blogs as the home for all their writing, while having aggregator servers based on an ActivityPub-like protocol allow for reading and discovery.

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Wasn't that the type of thing that Google Reader did, well? :)

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@jrredho @Green_Footballs It definitely was a good start. RIP.