davehtaylor@beehaw.orgtoTechnology@beehaw.org•With the decline of twitter and reddit, it's time to take a look at RSS again if you haven't already.English
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1 year agoTwo major problems:
1: very very few sites offer an rss feed anymore
2: the ones that do either only offer the headline and then just a link to the web story, or if they give a full feed, inject ads into them, where you don’t have an adblocker to stop it
I spent the better part of a month trying to curate an awesome rss feed and in the end, it’s still so actively hostile that it renders it’s barely usable
Don’t get me wrong. I want rss to come back and be as usable as it was years ago. But it’s a shadow of what it used to be, and active hostile
Power user has a very different connotation in social media than it does for general software or hardware usage.
Power users are the ones who submit the most content, post the most, run the most communities, etc. they’re the people who post literally hundreds of times per day, mod 20 subs, etc.
They’re essentially content farmers who’ve been given a cutesy name to make it seem like what they do is good.