I don't think it's "nostalgia" or "going back to the past". I think it's people in their thirties and older that somehow start to realize the promise of 'social media' was there all the time. This whole RSS thing... it's never pushed to it's potential, I think. Thanks to walled gardens and other kinds of closed jails. Surrounded by a lot of buzz, hype and money to be made.
Besides, I could say the same thing about electric cars. Your neighbor's new Tesla? Why is he going back 100 years in time? Nostalgia? Or new potential?
Pretty close. To be fair, the RSS-as-social-media was a thought I had a decade ago (more than a thought, there was a working prototype), but that doesn't mean it's not in my mind now.
Besides, I could say the same thing about electric cars. Your neighbor's new Tesla? Why is he going back 100 years in time? Nostalgia? Or new potential?