On 08/18/2018 02:13 PM, J.B. Nicholson wrote: > Caleb Herbert wrote: >> Man, XMPP worked great for video and text chat in 2012. Why did it >> just get dumped suddenly? :( > > There's been considerable pressure to drop standards for things we're > all free to implement and reuse. RSS too is (in the untrustworthy > corporate tech media) said to be less popular now but undergoing a > rediscovery. > > I imagine this happens in favor of some futile attempt to make private > areas of influence and control. Some people readily give into those > pressures citing a circular popularity argument if they don't give in > (they'll lose "relevance" or somehow become less popular if they don't > concede to a publisher/redistributor's power). Principled arguments need > not apply.
The argument by individuals that they will benefit by following the crowd is not circular. > > But large audio program distributors don't make it easy to publish RSS > feeds (some don't publish RSS feeds at all). Such is what happens with a > largely undereducated populace making decisions based on convenience, > price (weighed exclusively monetarily), and the perception of popularity > evaluated in their media bubbles. > > _______________________________________________ > libreplanet-discuss mailing list > libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org > https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss
