Until it does it's not an alternative to SOCIAL networks
> If you decide you care enough about a given community
What if I don't have time to evaluate the whole community and just decide that I care enough about a given piece of content and want to add my very valuable contribution by upvoting?
> whole world being captured by a particular community, instance, server...
This is a nonexisting problem since there are many of those, so
> one of 10 places we get community, info ... 85% of my feed would still be there
this comparison doesn't make sense, if you only used Reddit for 15% of you news/ consumption, didn't care about it (didn't have any social capital there etc.) or other users, you'd also not have any existential crisis regardless of whether you used RSS or something else to read Reddit/other sources
> Until it does it's not an alternative to SOCIAL networks
I get what you’re saying butI think this doesn’t matter quite as much as it does with Twitter, Facebook, etc.
Plenty of us preferred when Reddit was less like a modern social media network (mostly the pitfalls) and are more than happy just lurking. I don’t need an online status light. I don’t want some weird “snoovatar” NFT nonsense. I want /r/videography so I can continue to learn about my craft. An RSS feed sounds great and I’m kind of annoyed at myself for no thinking of it already lol.
I don't get the broader point you're trying to make here. That RSS is no good because it doesn't provide some kind of unified ID, posting/commenting capabilities etc.?
It's well documented that 95% of users are lurkers. 95% of the time I'm lurking, too. That's why following multiple communities across multiple platforms is useful. For the frequent times when we all lurk.
The broader point is pretty simple - you suggestion fails in the relevant problem domain, which is social networks
> It's well documented that 95% of users are lurkers
then you wouldn't mind citing a source? Though bear in mind that in this context lurker is a social media platform user who:
a) reads but
b) never interacts (no likes, no shares, no comments, no posts, no messages, no games etc.)
Until it does it's not an alternative to SOCIAL networks
> If you decide you care enough about a given community
What if I don't have time to evaluate the whole community and just decide that I care enough about a given piece of content and want to add my very valuable contribution by upvoting?
> whole world being captured by a particular community, instance, server...
This is a nonexisting problem since there are many of those, so
> one of 10 places we get community, info ... 85% of my feed would still be there
this comparison doesn't make sense, if you only used Reddit for 15% of you news/ consumption, didn't care about it (didn't have any social capital there etc.) or other users, you'd also not have any existential crisis regardless of whether you used RSS or something else to read Reddit/other sources