To be honest, the closest thing to an interest feed as you describe it is

tumblr — not because it…

Like twitter, tumblr has asymmetric following and a reblogging feature that constitutes most of the content. Unlike twitter, most active…

To be honest, the closest thing to an interest feed as you describe it is tumblr — not because it doesn’t try to be a ‘social network’ but because it fails so hard at being a bidirectional communication medium.

Like twitter, tumblr has asymmetric following and a reblogging feature that constitutes most of the content. Unlike twitter, most active users keep separate accounts for separate topics. While you are still following accounts, it’s more like following one person or group’s curation of a topic than it is like following a person, and some portion of the network actually only pays attention to tags (meaning that they don’t follow anyone and don’t look at their feed, but instead watch a topic-centered feed via the search function). So it’s twitter without character limits.

By John Ohno on October 9, 2015.

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