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But then you need to go to each website for updates. The benefit of these platforms was aggregation.
by hiatus 2y ago
But then you need to go to each website for updates. The benefit of these platforms was aggregation.
- XorNot 2y agoThey're a government department. This is literally something which should be coordinated by the government. I.e. police.gov should just dashboard this for you using location services.
- hiatus 2y agoPolicing in the US is fragmented. Unlike many European countries, the local police are not nationalized—each department has its own concerns, budget, etc.
- homebrewer 2y agoThis was solved 20 years ago with RSS, I guess it's about time for someone to rediscover the idea and reimplement something like it, push it like a great new invention, and make a couple of billions in the process.
- johnnyanmac 2y agoIt was solved 20 years ago. But companies unsolved it by deciding to de-prioritize or even remove such RSS API's. Getting around that requires some heavy and expensive scraping (compared to a lightweight API to hook into), and as we're seeing right now companies are at each other's necks in real time over scraping.
- PhasmaFelis 2y agoGood point. If Discord can make billions by essentially reinventing IRC...
- hiatus 2y agoIf setting it up was as easy as posting a tweet, sure. My parents don't even know what RSS is but they have heard of Twitter.
- johnnyanmac 2y agoI feel like that's fine, as another boomer. The internet wasn't designed with this idea that you only visit 10 websites and everything else is on the fringes. Did people forget that bookmarks exist? Back to crushing reality, that's also why I'm a huge RSS fan. your feed should be based on websites you want to follow, not what the website's algorithms want you to follow. RSS puts the control back to the user while giving 95% of the convinience of a centralized platform.
- blitzar 2y agoGod I loved rss - my list was / is everything from breaking news headlines to random interesting peoples blogs.