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Why are people hyped about RSS regaining relevance? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] 9 points 3 years ago (3 children)

I just couldn't get into RSS feeds back when it was growing in its popularity. No chance I'll understand using it any better now lol. I am a fool of a took.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    There's no way you are in a decentralized aggregator site but don't get RSS.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    You can always end up somewhere, even if you fall ass backwards into it. While I understand what RSS is, what I fail to understand is how people find it useful. I never understood using RSS to see 2 lines of a headline article that I'm going to go to the website for anyways. So it just never fit my workflow. Hopefully that makes it make a bit more sense.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    It's just not an interesting way of browsing the internet. RSS treats everything to be of equal worth and it isn't.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    If you can glance over 100 posts in 10 seconds that is of little importance. The issue is that nobody enabled good ways to do so. Also people should rather devote their times to priority purposes such as editing Wikipedia or developing open source software that is not some niche repo but e.g. MediaWiki or Lutris.

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