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Hopefully RSS will made a comeback from this.
QR codes got a second lease on life. Although they remained common in industrial use, they fell out of popular use almost a decade ago. Their resurgence is one of the few persistent, positive social changes to come out of the pandemic.
The solution is so fiendishly simple I am astonished not to see it suggested elsewhere yet.
Back when I were a lad, there was this thing called the world wide web...
Apps as a crappy, less capable front-end for what is just a webpage anyway is not a new trend, but it has gotten crappier and stupider over time. Patreon should just pull their app entirely from platforms that behave as predatory rent-seekers and work on making their mobile web interface top-notch. It's not that hard.