<story><title>How to rebuild social media on top of RSS</title><url>https://tfos.co/p/rebuild-social-media/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dado3212</author><text>RSS has got to be the thing that Hacker News loves the most that every non-tech person on Earth doesn&amp;#x27;t care about. So many techies love this model of designing their feed and collating what content they consume, while the quickest growing social network&amp;#x27;s &lt;i&gt;entire pitch&lt;/i&gt; (TikTok) is &amp;quot;we&amp;#x27;ll deliver you what you want without you having to follow anyone&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>randomdata</author><text>Podcasts seem quite popular among non-tech people. The national over-the-air radio station in this country even has an entire weekly show dedicated to helping people find new podcasts to subscribe to. It appears non-tech folk do actually enjoy this model of designing their feed as much as anyone else.&lt;p&gt;Indeed, non-techies don&amp;#x27;t actually care that it is RSS under the hood, but I&amp;#x27;m not sure techies really care either. It is the high level concept of what RSS embodies that is really being talked about. RSS merely gets suggested because it is an already defined standard that gets us there. No need for a 15th competing standard.</text></comment>
<story><title>How to rebuild social media on top of RSS</title><url>https://tfos.co/p/rebuild-social-media/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dado3212</author><text>RSS has got to be the thing that Hacker News loves the most that every non-tech person on Earth doesn&amp;#x27;t care about. So many techies love this model of designing their feed and collating what content they consume, while the quickest growing social network&amp;#x27;s &lt;i&gt;entire pitch&lt;/i&gt; (TikTok) is &amp;quot;we&amp;#x27;ll deliver you what you want without you having to follow anyone&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dasil003</author><text>Another Hacker News thing is the middle-brow dismissal.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not really a fair comparison between a centralized product optimized for engagement and a distributed protocol that can be used in lots of different ways.  Sure, the world doesn&amp;#x27;t care about RSS, that&amp;#x27;s pretty much the easiest strawman to come up with.  On the other side though, it&amp;#x27;s not a foregone conclusion that what the world wants is to be mindlessly entertained by the algorithm of a faceless corporation.  At this point TikTok is the new hot, but there is a long history of youth culture rebelling against corporate tastemakers, so it doesn&amp;#x27;t seem outrageous to assume that the next big thing will involve some measure of curation.</text></comment>