> After all, The Onion is a publication that relies on syndication through Facebook and Twitter
That didn't take long to find. Why use that as an example?
That didn't take long to find. Why use that as an example?
Once I start finding sites that don’t support RSS, then I worry.
But if you care about what content is available, if you care about how people who create work you enjoy are able to make a living about it, if you care about things like who's the president of the US. Then it might behoove you to care about the fact that between them, Google, Twitter and Facebook control the majority of the referral traffic for the most popular 100 websites. A future where RSS prevailed over social media as a way of curating content for most people is a different world than the one we live in, and if you care about the world you live in, you might care about why RSS didn't prevail, even if it's still usable for the minority who prefer it.
Reread my post. There is a difference between caring about whether the majority of users are using RSS and caring about whether publishers are creating RSS feeds.
I specifically said “Once I start finding sites that don’t support RSS then I worry.”