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I just realized there is an enormous database of people talking about RSS on the internet, teaching others how to use RSS, learning how to use RSS, talking about the advantages of RSS, conducting user research on RSS first impressions.

All of this applies almost unedited to Nostr.
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Willheim 1y ago

It's like it only took nearly 20 years for RSS to catch on. It was on fire when it launched, used for everything, then passed by the wayside. We had our own RSS aggregators so we didn't have to visit blogs individually. Then Google tried to kill it when they killed the Google Reader service. RSS definitely fell out of favour. Nice to see it back! Less nice to see some services using it to get clicks off Nostr but not actually participating in the Nostr community. Maybe these things just take time.

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StevenB 1y ago

Here's a little secret. RSS never fell out of favor, people just didn't know they were using it. All those podcasts you've listened to over the years... yeah, that's RSS.