The author mentioned that some silos make people log in—which ones? To my knowledge, none of the ones in his doodle of what the average website looks like make you do that, so I'm curious which do. And even if they do, in order to "be a fan", surely that requires subscribing through some method? And surely the average schmoe doesn't use RSS?
Big fan of RSS, but feel like it's largely a demographic slant that assumes that because people within x demographic use RSS and are tech-literate that everybody must thus use RSS and be tech literate.
The author has basically reinvented Soup or Tumblr.
* Instagram makes you log in after swiping a few screens
* Twitter used to do the same thing, probably not anymore
The argument isn't rss versus not rss, or logged in versus logged out. I'm arguing that sprinkling your media across multiple sites is a harder experience for readers than centralising it in one.
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Big fan of RSS, but feel like it's largely a demographic slant that assumes that because people within x demographic use RSS and are tech-literate that everybody must thus use RSS and be tech literate.
The author has basically reinvented Soup or Tumblr.
* Instagram makes you log in after swiping a few screens
* Twitter used to do the same thing, probably not anymore
The argument isn't rss versus not rss, or logged in versus logged out. I'm arguing that sprinkling your media across multiple sites is a harder experience for readers than centralising it in one.