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We've really come full circle. Back when Facebook was a user-friendly place, you could connect any RSS feed to your Facebook feed. My FB was just a collection of things I posted to del.icio.us, flickr, etc etc. It really was a sign of the crapification of that place that was to come when they ripped out this feature.



Not to mention XMPP integration. Obviously a totally different philosophy that actually cared about the user.


XMPP fully support news feed publication using XMPP Pubsub https://github.com/edhelas/atomtopubsub

Here's the result https://mov.im/community/news.movim.eu/ArsTechnica

The awesome thing is that articles stored in XMPP are actually Atom articles, so there's very little to do.


Used to be able to add friends birthdays and events you'd rsvp'd "Going" to your calendar via iCal URLs too. That was so damn useful.




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