@rglullis RSS is so underrated I feel. Easy to understand, battle-tested, scales up easily, plethora of clients. Many uses of microblogging, especially in the “real world” use by places like governments, police departments, public transport services could be easily replaced by simple RSS/Atom feeds. Governments and TV stations don’t need to set up Mastodon instances since they never actually interact with people. It’s not “social” media to them; just another avenue of broadcast.

@fediverse

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

True. For podcasts, seems like RSS is the main thing

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Lots of things! I subscribe to blogs, Lemmy communities, Mastodon accounts, podcasts, YouTube channels, source code repositories (GitHub, Sourcehut, cgit…), Hacker News, subreddits. All in one ad-free, tracker-less, totally local, instantly searchable, open source application. Couldn’t have lived without it for the past 15 - 20 years!

@fediverse @VintageGenious

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Though you cannot interact with it right ?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Sure I can ;) I clicked on the link to your post in my RSS reader then replied from a Mastodon application.

@VintageGenious @fediverse