I would love to see a resurgence in RSS instead of all the bloat thats so prevalent nowadays.

  • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de
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    7 months ago

    Podcasting runs on RSS too, the problem is still that RSS doesn’t help discovery of content the way social networks do. And I have no idea how sharing virtual business cards (vCards) help either, they hurt anonymity in fact (unless you’re making anonymous ones with no real info in them.

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      7 months ago

      Some people use social media to keep up with people they know in real life. Except for a few outliers, I’d say that was the primary use case before viral games like farmville encouraged the behaviour of friending as many people as you could.