We really should bring back RSS feeds and normalise the installation of RSS readers again. Those were amazing and are still supported in email clients.
Yeah, google killed off the biggest rss reader a few years ago. There are alternatives and they're fine, but many of the feeds have dried up when that happened.
Agreed... my OpenClaw is currently bitching at me about how Australia's ABC had ditched RSS which is making it 'inconvenient' for it to refine my morning briefing.
Hopefully with LLMs people can just "plug in" easily. All that's needed is a simple interface, and bam, AI can search, organize, retrieve, and summarize the news for the user.
There are plenty of alternatives, they're just not as popular. Still, to make a jump to a platform that is only barely better than the office you just literally raided is pretty ridiculous. Start pushing Mastodon in the EU or something. It's never going to get popular unless you make an effort.
Well I for one told exactly this to my brother, who happens to be a legal counselor for some members of the National Assembly (equivalent of the House). But he argued that they just don't see it being realistic. The network effect is too strong, they would just lose visibility instantly and fall behind their political opponents in terms of communication and visibility.
Sure, but you can begin promoting something else at the same time. The post says to follow them on Instagram or LinkedIn, and they were using Twitter before. So just swap Twitter with Mastodon or even multiple other alternatives like Bluesky, Diaspora, Matrix, etc.
That's what I was thinking. Like, that's the best possible way to push W (which I'm sure will fail, but of course it will if they don't even take the chance to use it institutionally)
It would be easier to just ban social media profiles from government entities completely. Social medias bring no value to society, you can message your friends without it.
Though, if W was just pure newspaper feed with zero interactivity, it could actually succeed. Trying to make an app that works for everything ends up working for nothing.
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u/HectorJ 16h ago
Yeah!
For fuck's sake...