alt Hacker NewsI don't see why. You can always subscribe to a newspaper. Or just use RSS and a subscription tool since it didn't just go away.
What I'm saying, though, is if you don't use social media at this point you're already an outlier (I am, it should be noted, using the term broadly: you are using social media. Right now. Hacker News is in the same category as Facebook, Twitter, Mastodon, et. al. in this context: it's a place you go to get information instead of using a collection of RSS feeds, and I think the reason people do this instead of that may be instructive as to the ultimate fate of RSS for that use-case).
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> since it didn't just go away.
But do you see how removing a feature from a major browser makes it seem like RSS did just go away and how RSS will eventually go away?
What a terrible disingenuous argument. Anyone not in line with big tech deserves to be pushed aside eh?
> You can always subscribe to a newspaper.
The circulation for my local newspaper is so small that they now get printed at a press a hundred miles away and are shipped in every morning to the handful of subscribers who are left. I don't even know the last time I saw a physical newspaper in person.
> Hacker News... it's a place you go to get information instead of using a collection of RSS feeds
No, it's a place I go to _in addition_ to RSS feeds. An anonymous news aggregator with web forum attached isn't really social media. Maybe some people hang out here to socialize, but that's not a use case for me