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Yes and no. No because it is missing one popular use case: getting updates from projects that don't have mailing lists or RSS feeds.
by sourcecodeplz 4y ago
Yes and no. No because it is missing one popular use case: getting updates from projects that don't have mailing lists or RSS feeds.
- tomku 4y agoMailing lists and RSS feeds don't incentivize me to compulsively check them so that the important updates I care about aren't buried under a 47-post rant about why I should be angry about something in the news or hidden by an algorithm because it thinks I'm more likely to engage with a bunch of memes. Maybe it works if you only follow low-traffic announcement accounts, but when I was actively using Twitter I found that I regularly missed posts like that because they either didn't get engagement (algo timeline) or were posted when I wasn't paying attention (chrono timeline). I understand that a lot of projects have chosen to rely on social media for that kind of news for various reasons, but it's not a good situation.
- mikae1 4y agoIf the project is in Mastodon, it has an RSS feed. Just subscribe to https://domain.tld/@username.rss https://domain.tld/@username.rss.