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X's idiocy is doing wonders for Bluesky. (htxt.co.za)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Dot@feddit.org to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

As a counterexample to this comment, if any of my creators switched over to an RSS feed I probably would stop getting updates from them because that's more hassle than when I can just go to one service and see everything in one place

[–] ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What you describe is basically the flipside of what happened to RSS folks, so I know what you mean. It sucks to stop getting updates the way you're used to, and more hassle making the transitions to whatever the different method is.

It's basically the reason Twitter/X still has anyone there, except they have higher switching costs compared to an open following format.

Honestly I take the compromise approach where I can, which is social media that still generates RSS, like Bluesky/Mastodon/etc. and use that to avoid making additional accounts.

[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yea I think that's a good compromise, I want creators to go on Bsky so its all in one place... (and I can escape the Political and ad succumbed hell that is X), RSS would be an interesting route but like, it would need a feed for every creator wouldn't it? unless the social media platform allows it built-in like BSky does

[–] ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

RSS would be an interesting route but like, it would need a feed for every creator wouldn’t it? unless the social media platform allows it built-in like BSky does

If I understand ya right yeah, with BSky/Mastodon you pull the individual feeds for each account if you go that route (or maybe someone has an .opml file of several already grouped by topic to import). To me it's no worse than having to individually follow them on-platform, but I know I'm atypical in that respect

Once ya have'em it's all in one feed in your reader so not too different than the following feed