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Chris Trottier

@vfrmedia @cambridgeport90 I've encountered them. They were easy to find back in 2007, when link aggregation was *the* most popular way to use social media.

20 Nov 2022 at 21:59 | Open on mastodon.social
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Kat M. Moss

@atomicpoet @vfrmedia I wonder why no one has kept up the aggregation, then? Seems like it should be easy considering they didn't wipe the code off the map, like they should have, if they were really trying to monetize it.

20 Nov 2022 at 22:03 | Open on indieweb.social
Chris Trottier

@cambridgeport90 @vfrmedia Two reasons link aggregation stopped being the default for social media:

1. Social media sites realized it was more profitable to keep traffic to themselves instead of sending traffic somewhere else
2. Users decided that they hated leaving sites, and thus a culture was created based on "saved you a click".

This is even true now with the Fediverse. I discovered that blogging is useless except as an archive because nobody clicks!

Therefore, I make threads.

@cambridgeport90 @vfrmedia Two reasons link aggregation stopped being the default for social media:

1. Social media sites realized it was more profitable to keep traffic to themselves instead of sending traffic somewhere else
2. Users decided that they hated leaving sites, and thus a culture was created based on "saved you a click".

20 Nov 2022 at 22:15 | Open on mastodon.social
Chris Trottier

@cambridgeport90 @vfrmedia By the way, I can write another whole thread about the rise and fall of link aggregation.

Until the 2010s, clicking links was considered "fun".

Now it's considered, at best, as work. At worst, a threat to safety.

20 Nov 2022 at 22:17 | Open on mastodon.social
Kat M. Moss

@atomicpoet @vfrmedia Then I guess I'm the minority, because I love viewing people's actual site.

21 Nov 2022 at 0:53 | Open on indieweb.social
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