@DrHyde @Sethuels @pluralistic @NadiaYvette after the asteroid hit, there was plenty of life on earth still. hey, eventually the little rodents evolved into us, maybe it was for the best. but i don’t think it’d be quite right to pretend there was no meaningful change.

@DrHyde @Sethuels @pluralistic @NadiaYvette (More specifically, RSS was where the journalists were, which created a permeability between mainstream media and the longform blogosphere. But they were universally there via Google Reader. Network effects surrounding media influence then migrated almost entirely to Twitter. The rest is sordid history. Arguably, the journalistic migration to Twitter was inevitable and crashing RSS just sped things up. We’ll never know.)