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Good luck!
Missed a phone call and there's no message? If it's important, someone will call back or email / similar. If not, then I shouldn't worry anyway.
> There was a time that I used to check my Facebook about a 100 times a day, but lately I only check it a few times a week. Something is fundamentally broken.
Sounds like something was broken, and now it's ok.
Also, as German "UG (haftungsbeschränkt)" (aka "1 Euro GmbH", a German LLC that doesn't require the 25k capital normally required for a GmbH) sounds incredibly fishy (deservingly so or not). My instant reaction when seeing that in the footer of the Bynd app website was extremely negative; I think it's worth scraping together the cash capital for a full GmbH to avoid that potential first impression.
p.s.: the company was created by three students and is currently bootstrapped. The UG is great for a start but you´re right: nothing beats a GmbH :). We will transform into this asap.
I've been using RSS for 15 years now. I've watched people mock the idea in favor of $SERVICE, for a wide variety of values of $SERVICE and now most of those services are dead, Facebook already deciding what you see, and Twitter now going down this route. Meanwhile, my open-world RSS subscriptions just keep chugging along, through at least 5 different major readers I've used at various times, with subscriptions to things that update every hour and things that update every couple of months. It just keeps clocking along, delivering value, over and over and over, while walled gardens rise up, choke themselves, and die, destroying people's networks in the process. Meanwhile, I just keep on keepin' on, because I am not beholden to anybody.
(Edit: It also occurs to me to point out that my blog in its capacity as an RSS provider has survived 3 platforms now, and that the only one that required the readers to take any action was the one time I switched from the hosted service to a DNS name I control. That was less trivial though.)
There's a bajillion options that already exist... all you have to do is stop jumping into the walled garden. No matter how nice it looks. No matter how advertised it is.
Ask yourself... "Am I confident this will be here in 10 years?" RSS will be. The only way it can die is for nobody at all to use it. Will Twitter? Will Facebook? Well, I won't guarantee they won't but I'd give less than even odds for both, frankly. (At least, without some sort of major event that really changes them, like an acquisition or absorption into something else. Yes, talking about Facebook being acquired sounds strange today... a lot happens in ten years. Right, MySpace?)
"I have this cause, yet I am experiencing the effects of that cause!"
WTF, how do you not see that having too many "friends" is going to create a Facebook feed that's irrelevant to you?
> There was a time that I used to check my Facebook about a 100 times a day, but lately I only check it a few times a week.
That must be really hard for you.
The problem is not that Twitter et. al. are filtering out all the good content, it's that 99.9% of social media is completely fucking worthless to anyone except advertisers. The solution to this problem is not an app, it's to delete your accounts on these "services" and go outside.