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I don't understand why it should be the one or the other. RSS is still needed because, despite all of this, not everyone was/is on Twitter. And I'm sure 99.99

I don't understand why it should be the one or the other. RSS is still needed because, despite all of this, not everyone was/is on Twitter. And I'm sure 99.999% of people on Twitter don't want to be bothered by creating and maintaining their own website or blog. Also, these are 2 totally different mediums with 2 different types of content, and 2 different publisher/reader dynamics (and, no, comments aren't the same thing). Even if RSS was still in its heyday, a twitter of some sort is still being to be a need.

johnnyanmac 3y ago
>I don't understand why it should be the one or the other. In theory, it doesn't have to be. In practice, one cannibalizes the other. I don't necessarily blame Twitter, but Twitter isn't incentivized to let people know that they can grab their feed from outside the app/website. There inlies the issue. RSS can definitely work alongside centralized microblogging platforms. You can (or used to) grab an RSS feed for a specific subreddit, and you can unofficially generate RSS feeds from twitter in several ways[0] >Also, these are 2 totally different mediums with 2 different types of content, and 2 different publisher/reader dynamics The idea isn't to end microblogging. It's that you don't put all your eggs in one basket and end up confused on where to go when that basket is suddenly full of nazis. Some may simply wander around until the next big basket pops up, but it should always be emphasized that it's easier than ever to whip up your own platform. But as we've seen the biggest issue of a new platform is discoverability. In theory, an RSS Feed + some curation for feeds to subscribe to solves this. 0: https://rss.app/rss-feed/create-twitter-rss-feed https://rss.app/rss-feed/create-twitter-rss-feed