Bluesky adds 700,000 new users in a week / A ‘majority' of the new users are from the US, indicating that people are searching for a new platform as an alternative to X. - eviltoast
    • moitoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      9 days ago

      Yeah but no. It’s not an RSS feed per se. It’s researchers sharing what they publish and what other publish with ints or resumes sometimes. Then people would comment and researchers reply.

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        Never went away, they’re still used by independent websites. A potential hurdle was that Firefox dropped native support at one point

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          …and a lot that are not that independent. I never stopped using RSS. It’s only because it’s not so easily monetized that it’s not more widely known, I bet.