RSS has a kind of comeback? Good to see. I have been depending on it for a long time. No better solution to check a multitude of sources effectively. As someone around here mentioned, there now is https://follow.is
I 100% agree with RSS ideologically, but my main problem with using it is that it's not social. It's a single-player experience. I'd like an RSS feed with RSS-wide comments I could read before I click the link - kind of like Hacker News.
> I 100% agree with RSS ideologically, but my main problem with using it is that it's not social. It's a single-player experience. In a weird way, the liberal self-flagellation reflex to not fly, or not use social media etc., always also creates some strange negative externalities. In the case of using RSS for the broader public good, it makes the web single player again. Who knows what that means over the long term. Maybe that liberalism fades away on platforms? For the other cases, e.g. moralizing traveling, I think it makes people less tolerant to foreign culture. Every time I‘ve traveled the world, I‘ve come home at peace with other culture, whereas I lack empathy during periods when I stay here.
Sorry, but I don't see the problem here. This might be a reflex ;-) 1) by nature, social news websites like KN are good to find out about a broader consensus, about topics that interest a larger group 2) RSS is very efficient to keep track of sources that are less public or simply too infrequent 3) RSS is effective to keep track of things outside of the usual social sources (twitter, warpcast etc are overly represented anyway) that could feed into (1)
I agree that RSS does its job well. I'd just prefer to have something like 'RSS social' where I could chat in the comments with people who follow the same obscure sources. It is currently done by the blog-level comments but I don't want another website I have to check.