• @[email protected]
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    341 day ago

    An even better alternative is to replace it with nothing. The Twitter-like messaging paradigm is only good for trivia and rumor-mongering.

        • @[email protected]
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          111 day ago

          Yeah but no. It’s not an RSS feed per se. It’s researchers sharing what they publish and what other publish with ints or resumes sometimes. Then people would comment and researchers reply.

        • @joel_feila
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          71 day ago

          Man what evet happened to those

          • @brilokuloj
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            61 day ago

            Never went away, they’re still used by independent websites. A potential hurdle was that Firefox dropped native support at one point

            • @CharlesDarwin
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              421 hours ago

              …and a lot that are not that independent. I never stopped using RSS. It’s only because it’s not so easily monetized that it’s not more widely known, I bet.

    • @Enekk
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      81 day ago

      I used Twitter for emergency updates, saved me multiple times.

    • @marx2k
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      51 day ago

      …or following people and interests you want to follow and keeping up with their updates.

      ffs stop gatekeeping social media

      • @brucethemoose
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        The facebook/mastadon format is much better for individuals, no? And Reddit/Lemmy for niches, as long as they’re supplemented by a wiki or something.

        And Tumblr. The way content gets spread organically, rather than with an algorithm, is actually super nice.

        IMO Twitter’s original premise, of letting novel, original, but very short thoughts fly into the ether has been so thoroughly corrupted that it can’t really come back. It’s entertaining and engaging, but an awful format for actually exchanging important information, like discord.

        • @dezmd
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          21 day ago

          Everyone knows it was hot grits, and she poured them down your pants.

          Just /. things.