Re:Bluesky and the at Protocol
by al_borland on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @03:46AM
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>there was never a successful decentralized microblogging service before Twitter (and no, RSS doesn't count).
You say RSS doesn’t count, but the way you describe your use of Twitter sounds exactly like the purpose of RSS.
>Twitter was great for following the updates of a given person/company/group etc. … The 140 character limit was always a red herring, in my view: People can just link to their blog
I don’t see how this is appreciably different than reading headlines and the first sentence in an RSS feed and clicking through to the blog that backs it, if it seems interesting.
Twitter always felt like RSS for people who didn’t know what RSS is. Hence its popularity, as most people don’t know what it is, but the concept is very useful. A lot of people use Facebook for the same thing.
You say RSS doesn’t count, but the way you describe your use of Twitter sounds exactly like the purpose of RSS.
>Twitter was great for following the updates of a given person/company/group etc. … The 140 character limit was always a red herring, in my view: People can just link to their blog
I don’t see how this is appreciably different than reading headlines and the first sentence in an RSS feed and clicking through to the blog that backs it, if it seems interesting.
Twitter always felt like RSS for people who didn’t know what RSS is. Hence its popularity, as most people don’t know what it is, but the concept is very useful. A lot of people use Facebook for the same thing.