davew, 3 months ago

@adactio -- the meme was started by a few VCs and tech influencers in the 00's. A bunch of VCs had RSS startups, hired people who didn't know anything about it to run the companies. Since then it's been a choice phrase for people with low emotional ages, the kind of kids who, if they were losing a game, would throw the whole board in the air.

nixCraft, 3 months ago

@adactio Google played a role in it. Then, the majority of RSS is removed by social networks, too. I'm not too fond of it.

sciencebase, 3 months ago

@adactio I suspect the people who say that have only just learned about it

peterbutler, 3 months ago

@adactio For journalists or pretty much anyone who wants to follow many websites closely, RSS is irreplaceable. There’s nothing else close

akmur, 3 months ago

@adactio a few days ago I was surprised when I found out all reddits subs have rss, I wonder why it's still in place actually, not that I complain

mokazemi, 3 months ago

@akmur @adactio
Also do you know every mastodon profile has an RSS feed, too? :)

davew, 3 months ago

@mokazemi @akmur @adactio

bluesky too.

snail, 3 months ago

@adactio Depending on what the feed is you could probably insert adverts.

In a similar vein to those "advertorial" news items or the adverts that appear in your inbox on some free webmail providers.

Whether anyone would pay for you to do so though, especially since RSS is dead.😏

cohomologyisFUN, 3 months ago

@snail @adactio podcasts use rss, and typically have advertisements inserted