[manuelmoreale]

Everything is dead until it isn’t anymore.

RSS was dead and yet people are rediscovering it and plenty of people are still using it.

Blogs were dead and yet plenty of people are creating new ones.

Email is dead and yet newsletters are growing in popularity.

Young people simply use whatever is trending at the time they start using the web. Most of them don’t even know that there are alternatives.

I heard from plenty of < 25 years old that didn’t even know RSS existed. Some are baffled at the idea of being able to connect to someone via email rather than a DM.

[Gigachad]

Any stats to back that up? All of those things feel untrue. If I went out on the street and asked people what RSS is, I suspect it would take me a very long time before I encountered a single person who could answer. Marketing emails are just annoying. Email is where my receipts and bills go. Anything else is spam crowding out the important stuff.

[pixodaros]

Source: Lots of small business owners (teachers, writers, visual artists, audiovisual creators) paying their rent with a marketing strategy centred around a mailing list