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I'm one of the inventors of RSS and I need your help to reboot the Internet

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Re: I'm one of the inventors of RSS and I need your help to reboot the Internet

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Post by brodouevencode »

More talk about "rebooting" the Internet (including TBL, et. Al.).

1. Is it really probable?

2. With what that won't cause further fragmentation?

Also, is this what they're using to reboot the internet?

> A powerful document manager for Mac, Windows, and Linux for managing web content, books, and notes - supports tagging, annotation, highlighting and keeps track of your reading progress.

Re: I'm one of the inventors of RSS and I need your help to reboot the Internet

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Post by getpolarized »

brodouevencode wrote: post #2

More talk about "rebooting" the Internet (including TBL, et. Al.). 1. Is it really probable? 2. With what that won't cause further fragmentation? Also, is this what they're using to reboot the internet? > A powerful document manager for Mac, Windows, and Linux for managing web content, books, and notes - supports tagging, annotation, highlighting and keeps track of your reading progress.

This is basically the entry point.. I need a front end app to get people to contribute content so that Polar can discover and build a larger system on top for content sharing, federation, etc.

It's in the roadmap and video.

This isn't tied to a specific storage platform / provider so this can run on AWS, Filecoin, Firebase, etc.

I talk about it a bit here:

https://getpolarized.io/2019/03/22/portable-datastores-and-p...

Re: I'm one of the inventors of RSS and I need your help to reboot the Internet

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Post by getpolarized »

Here are a few more resources if you're interested:

Our roadmap:

https://getpolarized.io/2019/04/10/Roadmap-Q2-Q3-2019.html

Here's a discussion of using datastores to support a more distributed web:

https://getpolarized.io/2019/03/22/portable-datastores-and-p...

A high level mission statement which is still a work in progress:

https://getpolarized.io/2019/04/11/Polar-Mission-Statement.h...

Re: I'm one of the inventors of RSS and I need your help to reboot the Internet

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Post by eeeeeeeeeeeee »

I fully support the mission, but I would recommend making the post responsive for mobile devices. Opening this on iPhone is zoomed up in an area of a page with no text.

A big reason Facebook/Insta has been successful is because it “just works” and is easy to use. I feel like the open web has always had a usability problem for non-technical users and it never really compared to closed solutions.

Re: I'm one of the inventors of RSS and I need your help to reboot the Internet

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Post by backpackway »

getpolarized wrote: post #5

Nice. Just hit the front page! Today is my birthday too so good birthday present from you guys! I'm the creator of Polar so AMA :)

A tldr would be a good start. What is Getpolarized in two sentences and why will users prefer it over existing stuff?

Re: I'm one of the inventors of RSS and I need your help to reboot the Internet

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Post by kristianc »

From a marketing perspective, it’s really advisable to tell people what your thing is before asking for money.

Not being snarky - from taking a quick glance I genuinely couldn’t tell what the thing is and I’m unlikely to sit through a video without at least some high level intro of what I’m going to get.

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