This idea is verry vague as of now. The core idea is that by using simple existing web technologies, you can create a social media like environment. For example, weblogs + rss + hyperlinks, with the right authoring environment, could create a very dynamic social media infrastructure. Scalability and cost would be a problem. For example, if I have a lot of RSS followers who really want to see when I post something, they might be hitting my RSS endpoint every minute. That's a lot of requests. Also, I would have to foot the bill for my own infrastructure. Perhaps open source tooling and better engineering for RSS like systems could make this possible. > As the internet become more and more the primary location for human discourse, we need to take precautions to avoid single points of failure or single institution capture. #technologyandsociety #softwaredesign #softwareprotocols