your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦Oct 5, 2023

i do not understand why a news site would not have an #RSS feed of their latest headlines.

you don't have to give your content away if you don't want to. but you cannot bitch & moan about #facebook or #twitter cannibalizing your readership in their fascist gated communities when you've turned your back on web standards and the open web.

Show threadElizabeth GuiltOct 7, 2023
@blogdiva Although I'm sure the ad-revenue view is correct, a huge sticking point is that a vanishingly tiny number of end-users know what RSS is. Quite a few people have recently asked me how they can keep up with a regular series on my blog, and have looked completely blank when I said "there's an RSS feed". People have literally never heard of it, let alone knowing how to use it (or why they'd want to). Trying to explain it just gets me "urg, sounds complicated".
Show threadyour auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

@elizabethguilt that was by design because only blogs had RSS feeds and not MSM news sites back in the aughts when they started to pick up traction.

the CEO of Reuters went on record at the time that they had to make sure it would ever become mainstream & successful because it would mean the death of their proprietary business.

Oct 7, 2023 at 7:05amWeb
Show threadElizabeth GuiltOct 7, 2023
@blogdiva I didn't know that about Reuters' CEO. I guess knowing about RSS depends a lot on when you first found your way around the internet: was it still blogheavy, or dominated by a few corporate players.