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[+] 35 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)
  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Some use/used it as an RSS feed for researchers sharing papers.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Know what else is great for that? RSS feeds.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Man what evet happened to those

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Never went away, they're still used by independent websites. A potential hurdle was that Firefox dropped native support at one point

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    ...or following people and interests you want to follow and keeping up with their updates.

    ffs stop gatekeeping social media

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago*

    The facebook/mastadon format is much better for individuals, no? And Reddit/Lemmy for niches, as long as they're supplemented by a wiki or something.

    And Tumblr. The way content gets spread organically, rather than with an algorithm, is actually super nice.

    IMO Twitter's original premise, of letting novel, original, but very short thoughts fly into the ether has been so thoroughly corrupted that it can't really come back. It's entertaining and engaging, but an awful format for actually exchanging important information, like discord.

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