I would love to see a resurgence in RSS instead of all the bloat thats so prevalent nowadays.
vCard
Please…no
I’m a bit confused as to how this could be an alternative to social media. The only things I’ve known RSS feeds to be used for are keeping up with subscriptions on platforms like YouTube and Odysee or updates for games like RuneScape.
Also, I just want to say that the last time I heard someone use the term “vcard”, it meant something completely different and I was confused at first.
Podcasting runs on RSS too, the problem is still that RSS doesn’t help discovery of content the way social networks do. And I have no idea how sharing virtual business cards (vCards) help either, they hurt anonymity in fact (unless you’re making anonymous ones with no real info in them.
RSS sucks. Activity Streams are a better in every way (other than compatibility established software, obviously).
If you’re building anything new that uses RSS today, I encourage you to do both RSS and Activity Streams. Or just do what I do, and only do AS.
Most org/people still use FB, Twtr, Instagram. However, I do find it useful for YouTube.
It’s a neat idea but it still requires hosting and for the vast unwashed masses who don’t want to buy a domain and setup hosting for this stuff at the end of the day I fear this would be Facebook with extra steps.
There are some other federated social sites besides lemmy that something like this could be added to, but they’re not as big, afaik.
