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>consume information in a manner that leaves the individual with control This is both the main feature, and the biggest obstacle. The people with the money do
by deltarholamda 4y ago
>consume information in a manner that leaves the individual with control
This is both the main feature, and the biggest obstacle. The people with the money do no want the individual to have control. Thus it has always been and shall always be.
Folks are banging on Elon because they feel he's using Twitter to manipulate, but it's not like Twitter was different pre-Elon. Elon simply gave The Man a face, voice and smell.
Back in the blogosphere (I hate that word) days, a lot of RSS was floating around. It wasn't very good, as RSS implementations varied a lot. But when it was working well, it was so good. If I have a complaint about returning to RSS it would be that we will return to the days of clickbaity headlines.
- ascagnel_ 4y ago> we will return to the days of clickbaity headlines We entered those days and have yet to leave. If anything, the rise of social media (at RSS's expense) turbo-charged clickbait headlines, since now it's easy to measure engagement around those stories, both in terms of views and in terms of comments/likes/shares/etc.
- tracker1 4y agoGated through fewer sources providing much more analytics definitely changes the game there.
- _xivi 4y ago> If I have a complaint about returning to RSS it would be that we will return to the days of clickbaity headlines Wait, what do you mean? Clickbaiting (and borderline misinformation) has been getting only worse ever since
- deltarholamda 4y agoFair enough, "return" is not the correct word here. Maybe "we will solidify the importance of clickbaity headlines"? I first noticed the up-tick of clickbait headlines in the salad days of RSS. Due to this, I tend to ignore headlines these days, because I was trained to assume the headline was complete nonsense. So my internal metrics are a bit wonky.