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vCard + RSS as an alternative to social media (nfraprado.net)
submitted 7 months ago by JohnnyFive@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world
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I would love to see a resurgence in RSS instead of all the bloat thats so prevalent nowadays.

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[–] vortexal@sopuli.xyz 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm a bit confused as to how this could be an alternative to social media. The only things I've known RSS feeds to be used for are keeping up with subscriptions on platforms like YouTube and Odysee or updates for games like RuneScape.

Also, I just want to say that the last time I heard someone use the term "vcard", it meant something completely different and I was confused at first.

[–] JohnnyFive@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

People's blogs often have RSS.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Podcasting runs on RSS too, the problem is still that RSS doesn’t help discovery of content the way social networks do. And I have no idea how sharing virtual business cards (vCards) help either, they hurt anonymity in fact (unless you’re making anonymous ones with no real info in them.

[–] JohnnyFive@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

Some people use social media to keep up with people they know in real life. Except for a few outliers, I'd say that was the primary use case before viral games like farmville encouraged the behaviour of friending as many people as you could.