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vCard + RSS as an alternative to social media - nfraprado

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Last year after talking for a while with someone during a conference they asked me for my LinkedIn to be able to connect with me, to which I answered I didn't have one. It was many years ago when I decided to leave social media. I don't miss it. Instant messaging allows me to keep in touch with the people that really matter to me in a much more personal way. Still, this interaction stayed in the back of my mind. It would indeed be nice to keep track of these connections too. The people you had an interesting conversation with for just a few minutes. To be able to check how they're doing every now and then, who they're working for and what they're hacking on. Essentially I would like for everyone to have an online profile and feed, which I could easily check and subscribe to, and that this subscription data could be stored locally. Why should that be exclusive to social media? It's not. In fact, the feed part has already been solved for quite a long time with RSS/Atom. So by just having

vCard + RSS as an alternative to social media - nfraprado Last year after talking for a while with someone during a conference they asked me for my LinkedIn to be able to connect with me, to which I answered I didn't have one. It was many years ago when I decided to leave social media. I don't miss it. Instant messaging allows me to keep in touch with the people that really matter to me in a much more personal way. Still, this interaction stayed in the back of my mind. It would indeed be nice to keep track of these connections too. The people you had an interesting conversation with for just a

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