Blogger discovers this cool thing called “RSS”.

  • @[email protected]
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    13812 hours ago

    To OP and the few other comments sarcastically dunking on the blogger for just discovering RSS: why? It’s not exactly drowning in advocates today, and there’s basically a whole generation that wasn’t around when Google killed off Reader. What if we treated advocacy like this like the good thing it is?

    • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍
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      4512 hours ago

      You make my heart hurt, you’re so right. It’s getting harder and harder to find RSS or Atom links on sites. The more people rediscover these technologies, the more chance there is that site developers will continue to provide them.

      It would be fantastic if more people would rediscover Usenet, and IRC, and ditch the shitty knock-offs like Discord. There’s a pretty big contingent advocating for Jabber, which I’m ambivalent about, having been there when it started and when it (effectively) died and being very conscious of its flaws and limitations… but, still, these are all open standards and old-school internet - sometimes pre-web! - and they’re often still better than the commoditized successors.

      Embrace and encourage the new infusion of youth! Gate keeping is a very post-eternal-September behavior.

      • Ulrich
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        58 hours ago

        Pretty much everyone who has an RSS feed has it accidentally.

      • @KnightontheSun
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        What’s the first rule of Usenet? 😬

        • @[email protected]
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          11 hour ago

          Element (over the Matrix protocol). As someone who grew up on IRC, it is in no shape or form a replacement for Discord.

        • Ulrich
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          Revolt Chat. Only problem is they limit you to 25mb unless you’re self hosted.

        • confuser
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          110 hours ago

          It makes the most sense to get off discord by being platform agnostic in my opinion, just going to wherever you can find clusters of the types of connections you want in whatever format works for you as long as the format meets your requirements like privacy or whatever else, if you can find the bulk of it in a single place that’s great but not necessary.

          • @ZiemekZ
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            78 hours ago

            AFAIK it can’t reach feature parity with Discord, it only does text FFS! No video, no voice, not even simple text formatting and emojis! Not to mention plenty of clients are ugly, which can’t be said about Discord.

            • @[email protected]
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              14 hours ago

              Agree about features (pplus the fact that you’d need a bouncer or an always-on client to receive all messages), but the clients are just better than Discord. Discord just feels bloated.

    • paraphrand
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      1011 hours ago

      there’s basically a whole generation that wasn’t around when Google killed off Reader.

      🥺 😭

    • Ulrich
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      18 hours ago

      I don’t think “dunking” is the right word. It’s just funny that people are still discovering RSS 30 years later. Myself included.