Post #2008707
2026-05-04 19:24 UTC
@stuebinm Tech people are so weird…
I notice this effect too when people go to war to make one library more popular than another or something… Like, who cares?? Why does it matter if more or fewer people are using this ???
Or if you build something they are like, “OK but how are you going to get everyone to use this?" as if that is a requirement ??
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@jonmsterling@mathstodon.xyz 2026-05-04 19:25
@stuebinm Re: RSS specifically, your point is very salient. People will bring up how the big web browsers used to have built-in RSS features and now they don't, so RSS is dead. But the thing that's very strange is, anyone who was around in those days knows that the built-in RSS features available in old browsers totally sucked ??? And I don’t think anyone used them?
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@stuebinm@pleroma.stuebinm.eu 2026-05-04 19:28
@jonmsterling > as if that is a requirement ?? there does seem to be some core aspect of tech-bro-ism that's something like, "everything is a startup, even when it isn't", and it gets relentlessly applied to open source projects. it's very strange, and exhausting at times …