DISQUS

Louis Gray · 1 year ago

Robert often says "you are who you follow". If you end up seeing too many LOLCats, it is because you chose to follow people who post LOLCats. Same with politics, sports, religion, porn, or whatever turns them on (and you off). I wrestle with trying to be inclusive and following diverse interests, but as I get further away from my own core interests, they have a decreasing amount of value. The lists have helped there, as I have a "Back Page" and "Everyone" feeds when I want to step out of the comfort zone.

directeur · 1 year ago

Louis, you do understand that in the case of FriendFeed "likes" and "comments" are really used by some as real "money"? Right? Now this is stupid. People are running away from digg because of "diggs"... "Like" is just another name for "digg".

Second and actually more important: Friendfeed was nice when it was a tool for content, now it's a tool for the cult of "person". I don't need heros, I need smart (funny too!! How much times should I repeat that I'm not against fun?) content. I'm not looking for recognition or whatever... it's not about my "person". It's about the way content is served and consumed. Anyways... I should just shut up and let things go slowly, all this will just vanish within a day or two :)

Mona N. · 1 year ago

I think this is the second or third time he quit... lol

directeur · 1 year ago

Mona. Yes this the 2nd time. I thought that I was wrong the first time and was back. But now, I'm done with it... "LOL"

Sean P. Aune · 1 year ago

Did I miss where it said FriendFeed was for tech news only?

Randy · 1 year ago

+1 Sean. Friendfeed is not just for tech news. If someone wants to have "tech news only" feed then try to create TechFeed. =)

directeur · 1 year ago

Duncan, thanks for your good words, though I humbly think that it's really not worth an article. See? You call me directeur (a nick) This is exactly what I'm about. I believe that content is more interesting than people and friendfeed is shifting interst from "feeds" to "people". And to end the rumor, no, I'm not closing Noiseriver. It's still available at http://www.noiseriver.com

Duncan Riley · 1 year ago

I take your point, and that I don't actually know your first name most certainly does go to your argument. I can only apologize, and I'm sorry that I never learnt it, I should have, and there is zero excuses.

Re: the rumor: just read it elsewhere, great to see you're keeping it up.

directeur · 1 year ago

Duncan, No, really you shouldn't apologize. *i* choosed to be a nick. That's my vision of things. I was saying that I'm a nick to say in a way, that the person (me) is not important and doesn't deserve attention.

Duncan Riley · 1 year ago

re: not being worth a post, yes, true. It started as NoiseRiver shut, and I'd nearly finished it when Louis was kind enough to email me saying that it wasn't shut down. I hate wasting a post, and the whole thing about the changing content on FriendFeed is something I've been tossing up for a post now for well over a month, so I ran it anyway

Louis Gray · 1 year ago

There is a tugging in different directions with any Web service that approaches the mainstream. Unless you want to keep it very small, there will be a diversity of interests. The change can clearly be hard for people who liked it the old way. If we early adopters are to survive the transition as it crosses the chasm, we need to be flexible.

Mona N. · 1 year ago

Great. Now people are going to say *I'M* the one attention whoring by assuming people want me to quit. UGH!!

I'm just playing around, people! Like a joke. HA-HA? ... :\

tobstar · 1 year ago

All very interesting. FriendFeed really is changing quickly, almost weekly. What's become apparent to me is how much it changes if important content finders aren't posting. I'd say whilst I'm subscribed to about 250 people only about 10 post significant content regularly.

Travis Bedard · 1 year ago

This isn't a dig at Directeur, I certainly understand the frustration at when a cool service moves ot of your wheelhouse and stops being fun, but it's indicative of the the problem with the technospehere in this moment.

There are countless posts about when X is going to go mainstream, when adoption rates are going to meet expectations, is X dead (and if blogging, FriendFeed, and Twitter are all dead, which they have been in the last 10 days, what are we doing here....) but no one who is writing about it, commenting, tweeting, denting, Feeding, sharing, liking those bits and bytes WANTS it to happen. Of course it's more fun when a great service caters to you. I would prefer that more of the internet were about me too. But it moves on and you use a thing for what it's useful for.

But it's bad for business to strive for technosphere lock-in on anything.
Stop trying to use Every Service prossionally. There remins no award for being The Best FriendFeeder (sorry Mona), or having the most follows. If the way a service works annoys you? Ditch it. If it's a few bad LolShareres... ditch them.

Eyebee · 1 year ago

Friend Feed Is a SOCIAL network

tad · 1 year ago

As the primary purveyor of said "entertainment" and self-proclaimed "meme maker" of FriendFeed I would like to apologize on behalf of all of us for increasing the noise to the point where FriendFeed has been rendered useless to those looking for a dull, dry, collection of tech stories.

Mona N. · 1 year ago

As participator of said "entertainment" and self-proclaimed "meme maker" of FriendFeed I would like to apologize on behalf of all of us for increasing the noise to the point where FriendFeed has been rendered useless to those looking for a dull, dry, collection of tech stories. /echo

Duncan Riley · 1 year ago

Mona, if you stop doing what you do, I'll personally hop on a plane and stand at your front door screaming stuff until you reconsider :-) That stuff of course will be completely foreign to you because it will entail Australian slang terms....so don't make me do it :-)

Mona N. · 1 year ago

Splendid -- don't forget the bacon, please!

:)

Randy · 1 year ago

If Mona quit FF. I'll probably quit too! LOL!

Mona N. · 1 year ago

Are you kidding me? I'm not planning to quit any time soon... wait -- are you guys trying to get me to quit?! ;)

Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins · 1 year ago

If you quit, I quit.

Oh wait. doh!

Randy · 1 year ago

Not at all Mona! =) haha

rondelrosario · 1 year ago

Nope. :D Mona Quitting == EPIC FAIL.

Eyebee · 1 year ago

/echo too