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If your blog posts are one sentence or less, then they're not blog posts

As much as I roll my eyes at "If your {thing} doesn't have {thing}"-style gatekeeping, this does fit well with the fact that a reversion to the old blogs+RSS setup would solve a lot of the current criticisms of the social media world. RSS decouples the reader from the author AND the platform, allowing a "News Feed" that isn't tied to a single publisher or the whims of its algorithm design.

In fact, I'd go so far as to say that we should've created a similarly-consistent standard for forums. If we had solved the problem of users wanting central access to multiple forums without putting them under a single provider, we could've entirely avoided the existence of Reddit.

That's silly. I appreciate RSS as much as the next Hacker Newser, but, no. You could be throwing up hand-typed txt files with nothing else and that's still allowed to be a blog.

guys, I've never used an RSS feed, reader or anything. The one time I tried to understand it, I failed.

I know you all have grown fond of the ability to style content for arbitrary readers, but keep in mind it's a very sterile piece of tech that no one outside a very dedicated set of geeks uses directly.

I understand it has a bunch of indirect uses and am happy it can exist for those uses, but...