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While I appreciate this article and those like it, too many of these types of articles don't focus enough on the solution. I expected an article titled "how to save" to offer more solutions to what can be done, but that's mostly left to a single paragraph about being more intentional and thoughtful and "sitting with your own feelings."
If something isn't done to actually change the consumerist culture and insidious marketing models and data collection practices, we'll have another article like this in another few years, like we have had every few years. We were talking about filter bubbles when I was in high school over ten years ago. It's only gotten worse.
I agree with you on most levels, but I think the author is leaving it more up to developers to develop a site that brings back RSS feeds and newsletters to the masses. That the masses are wanting it, but can't find it. I would love an RSS reader that is FOSS for firefox for example, it would solve so many issues for a lot of things. All I can find is something like feedly that is essentially doing the same thing showing what they want you specifically to see.
I also think the underlying issues are more about the tastemakers being this ephemeral "they" from the masses which can occasionally be overridden, him talking about the creators knowing exactly when people turn away from their content that can be then "fixed", and that the homogenized coffee shop is the norm and authenticity is found by the masses and then ruined. It's a weird flow diagram that is kind of like pre-internet with magazines. Idk, it's a good conversation regardless if he doesn't have the answers.
Yeah that's very true about RSS readers and FOSS options and the masses not being able to find them very well despite wanting it. Agreed it's a good quotable conversation to have published. I am just frustrated that we so seldom see talk about what we can do about it, what comes next?
I think we're in it, the fediverse ran by instances that are more interested in fostering community than making a buck. There is a need and want for new ways to access the internet, the fediverse is one way that it's being provided. I'm not sure we're ever going to attract the internet tourists, but that's probably a good thing. This is where you go to get away from that.