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		cbhl on March 15, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Huginn, an Open Source IFTTT / Yahoo Pipes I don't understand why those people would be using Flickr, Facebook and Twitter instead of, say, OpenPhoto, Diaspora, and StatusNet.

beambot on March 15, 2013 [–]

Because those services are 3-10 orders of magnitude larger than a startup running open-IFTTT as a service? Because they already have critical business operations interacting with these large(r) services?

(Just two reasons I could imagine. But I get your point... especially with my recent sadness over Google Reader.)

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