Did websites and RSS stop working and I missed it? With more people doing AI searches a website is even more viable now, it's better for AI scraping than x.com.

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vaylian 40 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

RSS still works. But it doesn't offer writing comments like twitter/mastodon. Depending on the use-case this might be desired though.

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busywaiting 38 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> a website is even more viable now, it's better for AI scraping

That's not necessarily the endorsement you think it is.

	▲	threetonesun 18 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It's 100% the endorsement I think it is, someone searching for "is there a fire near me" wants an answer. The main issue with websites (and why Twitter grew) is it became easier to colocate information and get real(ish) time updates. For sites that don't care about actual traffic being able to surface that data to AI bots is perfect. If it reinforces a loop of "oh [site] is the actual source of information" even better.
	▲	weberer 27 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Why not? I'd much prefer if I can just send my agent to gather info among these sites than have to sign up for some Twitter clone, enable Javascript, then click around through a sea of algorithm bait.

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johnnyanmac an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I'm still honestly surprised that government entities didn't already solve this problem for themselves. We have means to mail, call, and even email our representatives, but technology seemingly stalled out 20 years ago and didn't keep up with the idea of having a digital forum. There are even multiple channels of verification to integrate, so such governmental forums could verify who is a constituent.

But that's not the end results. Senators have youtube channels, representative posts tweets and even tiktoks to update people, and emergency broadcasts post on Facebook. I'm not opposed to the expanded reach, but when that's their only official channel, it feels like something failed.

Recent years have only now made some non-US entities be pushed to start building away from this dependency, but it's a shame it had to get this far ingrained to begin with.