Not really. Facebook pushes stuff to you via its Timeline. Twitter has a feed. Reddit and HN has front pages.
Social media does plenty of pushing. It’s just instead of a biased human editor with common sense and perhaps a conscience filtering your news, it’s an algorithm with none of the aforementioned attributes.
Did you skip the paragraph the poster was referring to? They were referring to older social media where you would pick which users to follow and those would be shown to you, which mirrors RSS, a comparison explicitly mentioned in the article.
The point is that now it is getting more and more "pushy", but previously it was very "pull" based when compared to traditional education.
Not really. Facebook pushes stuff to you via its Timeline. Twitter has a feed. Reddit and HN has front pages.
Social media does plenty of pushing. It’s just instead of a biased human editor with common sense and perhaps a conscience filtering your news, it’s an algorithm with none of the aforementioned attributes.