@Catwoman69y2k I've concluded that much of the "join xyz platform for updates" mentality comes from the one-two punch of both web browsers ditching RSS and Atom and Google ditching Google Reader.

Say a free software project maintainer writes a development blog. The audience may or may not already have an RSS reader installed. This means the project maintainer might feel responsible for recommending a reader application for all 7 major platforms (Windows, macOS, desktop Linux, iOS, Android, Chrome extension, Firefox extension). Otherwise, people will land on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_feed_aggregators and experience analysis paralysis.

I guess one disadvantage of protocols is that platforms have tended to do better at landing pages than protocols. Is there a page to which a blogger can refer visitors who have never used RSS before?

#RSS #DevBlog #RSSReader #AnalysisParalysis #GoogleReader #Atom #FOSS #ProtocolsNotPlatforms #LandingPage

@Coreyartus Followed!

#ProtocolsNotPlatforms

@travisfw
> "using the internet" should always mean engaging directly with other individual humans, with nothing but routers in-between.

We need to un-shackle the internet from its current #monopoly #SurveillanceCapitalism #feudal lords, and return the net to the proper #WorldOfEnds.

https://web.archive.org/web/20050828023214/https://worldofends.com/

#ProtocolsNotPlatforms #Federation #BreakThemUp