It may seem optimistic, but I'm also optimistic about what our reality "optimizes" for.
These sites don't have RSS (anymore): News publications: Bloomberg, Economist, Forbes, TechRadar ... Communities: Indiehackers, dev.to They switch it off because it allows people to see their content without the advertising, or they forget to implement it. Source: I created https://nuuz.io/tech and it depends on RSS feeds for news.
Email works fine. I am in months long conversations with academics and thinkers around the world.
Signal works fine. Same story as above.
What’s dying is your historical connectivity to specific ideas.
That’s hardly a sign fascism and censorship are settling in.
And really you’re saying it was impossible for anyone to blindly get addicted to an RSS feed, just reading whatever is posted to it?
Good grief. Your brain is experiencing chemical shock over one of thousands of epistemological inventions going away. That’s akin to the dark ages literally returning?
Perhaps your connection to current events is coloring your thoughts here. RSS still exists. History wasn’t sucked into a black hole.
This is what’s deflating about the tech scene. All these weird hills to die on, as if some favored bespoke language that is only 10-12 years old anyway losing popular favor means 1984 is upon us!
Indeed, nor the world nor freedom of information will die here, but that doesn't mean it's a step forward.
Is it? I've never once used Slack. It's not on any of my devices. But email is and it works great.
We use our personal emails to set up the accounts. It's an interesting experiment that seems to be working fine so far. Not sure how it will work as we continue to grow (only about 40 employees right now.)
I would object to that. Personal and business don't mix.
I don't know about this one. For example, I'm not going to invite every one of our clients to our Slack as a single-channel guest, nor am I going to be joining their Slack workspaces (if any of them even have one - most of them are in the Microsoft ecosystem). I'm also not going to do that with every vendor I'm in contact with, and so on — email is much more convenient. That being said, most of our internal communication within the company is on Slack, but that's a small slice of what emails are used for.
The main difference is that Slack lacks a unique global id, so you can't add a user in Figma based on it's Slack ID unless you have a Figma / Slack integration. Email still rules for these use-cases - which is exactly why open-standards (such as email, RSS, etc.) are better than proprietary APIs that repeat the same use-cases over and over.
I'm by no means a MS fanboy but I find your comment odd...
How are they doing this exactly? I'm genuinely curious where you're coming from...
Teams is bundled into O365 but you can use Slack, Mattermost or whatever other product you want.
Then why should they spend another $100-300/year/user for a tool that on paper does what things like Slack does.
I'd expect zoom to go the same way in the next 12-18 months too.
You get posts from people/pages you subscribe to in your feeds. I don't see how this is true unless you're just talking about Facebook's non-chronological order. Twitter's nothing like that anyway.
It's more than just non-chronological. FB buries many link posts. Specific friends can disappear from your feed for months. FB still has the echo chamber issues it had pre 2016 election, just with fact checking notations sometimes. For many people, FB is where they get their world news at this point, and that's a very skewed way to get your news.