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Listening to podcasts means using feeds.
by throwawayswede 5y ago
Listening to podcasts means using feeds.
- Jorengarenar 5y agoI know it may come out as shocking, but majority of Internet users also don't listen to podcasts. And listening to podcasts doesn't mean using feeds. I personally have listened to some from YouTube; Spotify also offers them.
- throwawayswede 5y agoThe point is that it's not dead.
- Jorengarenar 5y agoI'm not arguing that. I'm arguing the use of false equivalence.
- throwawayswede 5y agoYou haven't provided any evidence for that.
- Jorengarenar 5y agoYou stated that "RSS is dead because barely anybody knows about it" is the same as saying "TCP/IP is dead because barely anybody knows about it". This is false. You cannot use the Internet without TCP/IP, be it consciously or not. RSS on the other hand isn't widespread enough to be used by ordinary person without knowing about it. And even if there are cases where RSS is used in background as TCP/IP is, then it doesn't change the fact it's in background. Average Joe still won't know how to subscribe to blog's RSS feed. Podcasts are basically the only place where feeds still thrive (alas it's also changing). RSS may not be dead, but unfortunately it's a niche which to average consumer is as good as dead.