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If RSS is so great why aren't people using it? Why isn't there a dozen readers on the market?
maybe it's just not that useful and that's why nobody is using it.
This is a common logical fallacy known as "argumentum ad populum" (appeal to popularity). You equate the popularity of the idea as a basis for determining its validity.
Compare, "if cars are so great, why is everyone still riding horses?"
But it actually makes sense with technology. If you need help, you want there to be a large community and corpus of knowledge to draw from.
I would argue that you can't do better for help and support than for old niche technologies and frameworks, because things like that always have a vibrant community of enthusiasts ready and eager to help.
Compare eMacs. Why isn't everyone using eMacs? It's basically superpowers for any client you install it on, and it installs on everything. Ridiculously hardcore fanbase, we're talking original flame wars on Usenet levels supporters.
Usenet, apropos, is quite topical on this matter. You should look it up. Fuck it here's the robot for ya:
Original RSS, from back in the day. Still active.
If you're interested: https://techjury.net/blog/what-is-usenet
Not really. In fact technology is often a great example of good demand but little effort put in to meet it. Open source software is riddled with issues that people are too eager enough to report but not eager enough to fix for everyone . We have an example of Palworld finally filling a niche described in the market for almost 2 decades.
Cassette Beasts? TemTem? Digimon? Saying no attempts to fill it were made is disgenuine
Should have been more clear, I'm talking about a 3D open world Pokemon. So the closest one to that is Digimon, which doesn't have captures. It took until Pokémon themselves created a poor version of what people asked for in this instance for another one to appear.
oh I was never really desiring 3D pokémon in the first place so I suppose that coincides with my misunderstanding
But everybody isn't riding horses. In order for your analogy to work it would have to like this. "If horses are so great why isn't everybody riding horses to work"
The irony is saying that on a platform like Lemmy.
I don't see it. What is the irony? How wildly popular is lemmy?