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A comment on It’s Time to Get Back to RSS. Parent comment

Re:It’s Time to Get Back to RSS by pembrook on Sunday May 17, 2020 @12:32PM (#23213087)
Whenever you put the burden on the end user to endlessly customize everything you’ve just lost 95% of the mainstream public and [insert thing] remains a niche tool used by people on HackerNews.

...and then mom still ends up getting her news from Facebook.

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Re:It’s Time to Get Back to RSS by thelazydogsback on Sunday May 17, 2020 @01:37PM (#23213596)
5% of users is fine -- nobody is saying that RSS should be the only interface to the internet-at-large. We just want to enable the 5% (or less) of users that are invested enough in the process that it's worth it for them to get their specialized content efficiently, but not lose out on valuable content.
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