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Some reflections on the Australian experience and what they might mean for Canada.

After Google’s move on Thursday, Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez sent a written statement calling the companies’ moves “deeply irresponsible and out of touch … especially when they make billions of dollars off of Canadian users” with advertising.

Australia’s regulatory experiment – the first of its kind in the world – also got off to a rocky start, but it has since seen tech companies, news publishers and the government reach a middle ground.

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[-] Godort@lemm.ee 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There is no way the general public would adopt RSS. The barrier to entry is just too high right now. Technology that delivers news needs to be idiot-proof and require basically 1-2 steps

Eg:

  • click on the blue-green swirl
  • type "Facebook"

Or:

  • turn TV on
  • change channel to news

Don't get me wrong, RSS is great, but it's also used exclusively by the computer-literate and it has been that way for basically 25 years.

[-] ahal@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago

RSS does not necessarily mean clunky UI and difficult to use. There are some pretty beautiful podcast apps with great content discovery features out there :)

No reason a news app that reads RSS needs to be more complicated than opening Facebook.

[-] nothingtoblocktheview@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

“Pocket casts for blogs and written news” would be killer

[-] lorax@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

I use Feedly on iOS to follow all my favourite sites and it’s great! I combine it with Pocket to read stuff offline too and it’s a killer combo. Never liked social media’s “push” content and preferred having the freedom to “pull” what I want.

[-] jerkface@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

You just click on an RSS link and it opens in your reader where you can subscribe or just consume directly. How hard is it to work a hyperlink?!

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