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The only viable alternative you named was Flipboard. Reddit, HN, Facebook, Twitter and G+ are all user-sponsored aggregators. If I see content there, it must h
by rpedroso 14y ago
The only viable alternative you named was Flipboard.
Reddit, HN, Facebook, Twitter and G+ are all user-sponsored aggregators. If I see content there, it must have come from somewhere. Where did I find the articles i share on Facebook? On my RSS feed.
One alternative is to follow your websites you like on a social service like Facebook. That's not as helpful as RSS.
- No read/unread tracking
- Depends on news feed algorithms
- Lots of noise
RSS mean I never miss an update. Your alternatives don't.
- marknutter 14y agoThese days, I see more "follow me on twitter" links than I do "subscribe to my RSS feed" links. I have no issue with RSS as a technology, but it clearly did not resonate with the non-technical user. Twitter and Facebook did. Geeks can lament this until they're blue in the face, but they're in denial if they believed RSS was ever going to be a viable mainstream solution.
- 6cxs2hd6 14y agoMaybe more of us should use the phrase, "Follow my feed". [1. Follow instead of subscribe. 2. Feed instead of RSS, because (a) there's also Atom, and (b) neither "RSS" nor "Atom" are quite as friendly as "feed".]
- marknutter 14y agoStill, most people are not going to know what the heck a "feed" is. They know what Twitter and Facebook are, but they don't understand finding an RSS reader and using it to follow somebody's "feed".
- Evbn 14y agoIt is a pretty easy word to learn. Heck, even FB already has a "news feed"
- Dylan16807 14y agoA twitter feed is almost always going to be full of noise updates. An RSS feed from a real blogging platform, especially if you filter to a tag, is going to be far more focused on useful information.
- jaibot 14y agoI don't care whether or not it's "mainstream", so long as I can use it.