Karpathy: We Should Bring Back RSS

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12 points·onurkanbkrc··6 comments

One way to reframe the question is to ask: why social media took over and what RSS can do to catch up?

I got a theory but curious about others thoughts.

My theory is barrier to entry, network density, lurker effect, UX, dopamine and attention economy loop, content recommendation etc all fell behind.

One hint is how TikTok’s old parent company started as a content aggregator and still runs one of the biggest one in china called Toutiao.

Also plug my tiny contribution to fix the inconsistent reading experience of rss ready blogs without installing an app: https://feedable.doublememory.com

At a minimum we should get off of social media platforms owned and directed by malevolent far-right demagogues.

How about that as a starting point, Andrej? You're an influential, widely-respected guy. Lead, and people will follow.

He's the kind of person who's really privileged by Twitter. In an RSS world we probably never would've heard of vibe coding.

True, but there's also BlueSky, Mastodon, and his own extremely-popular YouTube channel. X needs him far more than he needs X.

Before YC gets to fund MmRSSy (RSS, but for memes)

I'd ask Andrej to "submit to HN" for the "almost optimal of three worlds"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimsy_Were_the_Borogoves#:~:te...

Bring back? RSS never went away.

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