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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by duviobaz@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

According to Google Trends, during the past few years, there has been nothing but a few minor bumps that faded away as quickly as they came. I love RSS because i do not have to scroll through dozens of different news sites all day and i would love it to return.

EDIT: Typical case of people only reading the headline. I was asking why people are hyped over something that did NOT happen.

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For me it has to do with this

  1. I want a feed that updates based on my subscription
  2. That subscription content could be anything, blog posts, updates on a Wikipedia page (to keep up to date with a news story that is out of the limelight), or get updated with a XKCD comic

RSS meets both these, dead simple. It's also low in data usage, but it's for those reasons that I recently started using RSS after leaving it years ago.

P.S. I believe some blame goes toward "fragmentation", i.e. we still need to check a couple of websites for something new. RSS solves that by bringing all that into one place

[-] HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago

It seems like Activitypub could do these two things and maybe more.

https://reddthat.com/comment/2489957

Sounds interesting, especially with the fact you can comment on it. Only issue is getting sites to adopt it, and currently RSS is just dead simple to implement.

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