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Why Everyone Should Still Use an RSS Reader in 2024 (lifehacker.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Whatever the linguistic details, one of the main roles of RSS is to supply directly to you a steady stream of updates from a website. Every new article published on that site is served up in a list that can be interpreted by an RSS reader.

Unfortunately, RSS is no longer how most of us consume "content." (Google famously killed its beloved Google Reader more than a decade ago.) It's now the norm to check social media or the front pages of many different sites to see what's new. But I think RSS still has a place in your life: Especially for those who don't want to miss anything or have algorithms choosing what they read, it remains one of the best ways to navigate the internet. Here's a primer on what RSS can (still!) do for you, and how to get started with it, even in this late era of online existence.

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[+] [email protected] -9 points 9 months ago (10 children)

If RSS is so great why aren't people using it? Why isn't there a dozen readers on the market?

maybe it's just not that useful and that's why nobody is using it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (7 children)

This is a common logical fallacy known as "argumentum ad populum" (appeal to popularity). You equate the popularity of the idea as a basis for determining its validity.

Compare, "if cars are so great, why is everyone still riding horses?"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (5 children)

But it actually makes sense with technology. If you need help, you want there to be a large community and corpus of knowledge to draw from.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Not really. In fact technology is often a great example of good demand but little effort put in to meet it. Open source software is riddled with issues that people are too eager enough to report but not eager enough to fix for everyone . We have an example of Palworld finally filling a niche described in the market for almost 2 decades.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Cassette Beasts? TemTem? Digimon? Saying no attempts to fill it were made is disgenuine

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Should have been more clear, I'm talking about a 3D open world Pokemon. So the closest one to that is Digimon, which doesn't have captures. It took until Pokémon themselves created a poor version of what people asked for in this instance for another one to appear.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

oh I was never really desiring 3D pokémon in the first place so I suppose that coincides with my misunderstanding

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