Non-rhetorical question: How did email newsletter services like #Substack make reading blogs so popular again?

What would it take for #RSS to see the same success?

Maybe people would take #RSS more seriously if they understood that it is the basis of #podcasting.

The media in general and #creators specifically could spend a fraction of the time they take to "plug their socials" just explaining to people that RSS is a simple way to follow them.

I also think creators should free themselves from the dreaded algorithms by creating a feed that is updated whenever they release new content. I would argue that they should try to mirror as much of their content as possible on their own sites to control their own archive.

I think that a tool that helps creators aggregate their content across #Platforms would make a lot of difference. Then they can say "instead of following me on all those apps platforms you can just keep updated with rss".

It takes a lot of work to format videos for each #SocialMedia platform. You can't just upload your #YouTube video #TikTok but you can upload (or embed) all those videos to your own site which creates a feed that people can subscribe to with any #RSSApp.

#YouTubers #TikTokers #bloggers #blogs.

@jsit

@oligneisti @jsit @mood it’s all about the killer app. Mozilla tried using RSS as “live bookmarks”. Microsoft put channels (sort of a priori-RSS) on the desktop and in the browser sidebar. Apple did widgets. Yahoo! did Pipes. Of course, dedicated apps like NetNewsWire and Reader appeared.

None of it stuck enough for the mass market.

Except for one thing: podcasts. Where, really, RSS are just incidental backend tech. The user doesn’t need to care.