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I remember when people said that RSS and blogs were dead, and they'd just be posting to Twitter and Facebook instead. How'd that work out? I'm really glad to

by eykd 6y ago

I remember when people said that RSS and blogs were dead, and they'd just be posting to Twitter and Facebook instead. How'd that work out? I'm really glad to see smart Publishers like Ben Thompson looking to head the Aggregators off at the pass.

msla 6y ago
I remember when Firefox destroyed my RSS bookmarks with no opportunity for recourse.
- ChrisSD 6y ago
  The recourse is addons.
  - msla 6y ago
    Destroying bookmarks goes a bit beyond what addons can fix.
    - ChrisSD 6y ago
      https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/feed-reader-replacements-firefox https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/feed-reader-replacement... It didn't destroy them. It turned them static and can also create a `Firefox feeds backup.opml` that can be imported by feed readers. Sure this may not be the best situation but they didn't simply destroy live bookmarks.
      - msla 6y ago
        Well, I guess your mileage may vary on that one.
draw_down 6y ago
> How'd that work out? Can you say what your point is here? Because, "how that worked out" is, Facebook is one of the most valuable companies in the world, and the president of the United States posts on Twitter every day. Haven't heard a whole lot about Blogger lately.
elicash 6y ago
Mostly the way it worked out is that a lot of advertising for blogs and other websites dried up and shifted to Facebook and Google. This isn't the whole story, certainly, but it's probably the biggest story of what happened. While I'm excited about shifts to membership, I do think fundamentally the advertising landscape also needs to change.
ksec 6y ago
I have never stopped using RSS for nearly 20 years now. The beauty of RSS and RSS client is that I choose my own source. And RSS client compared to FB tends to be much higher information density, Command Click to open everything I like in new Tab and I have lots ( and too many ) to read. I think twitter replaces some form of blog post more than anything.

by eykd 6y ago

msla 6y ago

I remember when Firefox destroyed my RSS bookmarks with no opportunity for recourse.

ChrisSD 6y ago
The recourse is addons.
- msla 6y ago
  Destroying bookmarks goes a bit beyond what addons can fix.
  - ChrisSD 6y ago
    https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/feed-reader-replacements-firefox https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/feed-reader-replacement... It didn't destroy them. It turned them static and can also create a `Firefox feeds backup.opml` that can be imported by feed readers. Sure this may not be the best situation but they didn't simply destroy live bookmarks.
    - msla 6y ago
      Well, I guess your mileage may vary on that one.

draw_down 6y ago

> How'd that work out? Can you say what your point is here? Because, "how that worked out" is, Facebook is one of the most valuable companies in the world, and the president of the United States posts on Twitter every day. Haven't heard a whole lot about Blogger lately.

elicash 6y ago

Mostly the way it worked out is that a lot of advertising for blogs and other websites dried up and shifted to Facebook and Google. This isn't the whole story, certainly, but it's probably the biggest story of what happened. While I'm excited about shifts to membership, I do think fundamentally the advertising landscape also needs to change.

ksec 6y ago

I have never stopped using RSS for nearly 20 years now. The beauty of RSS and RSS client is that I choose my own source. And RSS client compared to FB tends to be much higher information density, Command Click to open everything I like in new Tab and I have lots ( and too many ) to read. I think twitter replaces some form of blog post more than anything.