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> Why not exactly RSS? Is it missing something? The users. You can put your news on RSS and approximately nobody will read them. Or you can put them on twitter
by krisoft 2y ago
> Why not exactly RSS? Is it missing something?
The users. You can put your news on RSS and approximately nobody will read them. Or you can put them on twitter and it will reach people.
This is true even now when the management of the bird app is seemingly hellbent on destroying the site. It was even more true when the decision was made.
I guess we can hope (or work) on an RSS based future, but the key thing to achieve is users, and then the rest will follow.
- johnnyanmac 2y agoTo be fair, RSS isn't an either/or. Quite the oppoiste. You make an RSS feed and bring users into twitter to reach them. Ideally being able to move people to your own hosted service and they then interface with the base news in the same way, on their chosen RSS. Even if the link may take them to a blog instead of a centralized service. Issue is that the bird app doesn't want this middleman between them. They want all the users' attention.