Comment by marcosdumay
13 hours ago
As long as the service provider runs an instance in their infrastructure and allows everybody to read.
That said, RSS seems way simpler.
13 hours ago
As long as the service provider runs an instance in their infrastructure and allows everybody to read.
That said, RSS seems way simpler.
A mastodon account provides an rss feed by default so both solutions coexist without duplicating the work.
RSS and IRC need new apps and new means to self host. To do that, there probably has to be new DNS.
I don't disagree and I'm not a mastodon user but, as far as I know, if you local gov hosted an instance and your state gov did too, you could, essentially, join both and see them together?
RSS aggregation seems like the solution to me but I think we've got to admit defeat on that one because it's been around forever and people don't use it.
Pretty much every podcast in the world and all of their listeners are using RSS. WordPress powers something like 30% of the Web, and most of the operators behind those sites are publishing RSS whether they know it or not.
I thought I was more clear than I was being about rss in the context of the conversation about text based news.
How many people consuming text via rss the same way people consume audio via podcasts?
We're talking about text here. We all know how this sentence ends, "You should start a ..." and it isn't rss feed. Everyone used to have a blog and nobody really cared. Now everyone has a podcast and (more) people do. People don't know what an rss feed is.