alt Hacker NewsIt is sad that Twitter is basically a private closed gate monopoly that people beg to use instead of developing alternatives like RSS
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numpad0 • today at 7:20 PM
Selfhosting friction has to be close to zero for that to work. And Termux is already way too much.
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muppetman • today at 8:14 PM
Yeah I keep yelling at Mum “Stop logging onto Twitter and develop and enhance RSS” but lately she’s stopped speaking to me.
slater • today at 6:58 PM
There was a time when Twitter supported RSS, it lived at @your-username/rss
Then they stopped it, because "eNgaGeMEnT" or w/e
Social media is addictive. RSS is not. Social media is profitable so worth marketing. RSS is not.