Post AnAF83G3JGsPqt7C3U by faraiwe@beige.party
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 (DIR) Post #AnABtSmHqToUnJXp6u by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
       2024-10-19T11:55:54Z
       
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       "Steve Gillmor, writing for TechCrunch in May 2009, advised that 'it’s time to get completely off RSS and switch to Twitter' because 'RSS just doesn’t cut it anymore'. He pointed out that Twitter was basically a better RSS feed, since it could show you what people thought about an article in addition to the article itself."#SinclairTarget, 2019https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-rise-and-demise-of-rss/I wonder how Steve is feeling about that hot take in 2024?#NewsMedia #RSS
       
 (DIR) Post #AnACQTt8jmaRnLUhUG by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
       2024-10-19T12:01:51Z
       
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       "...RSS, an open format, didn’t give technology companies the control over data and eyeballs that they needed to sell ads ... [also] centralized silos are just easier to design than common standards. Consensus is difficult to achieve and it takes time, but without consensus spurned developers will go off and create competing standards. The lesson here may be that if we want to see a better, more open web, we have to get better at working together."#SinclairTarget, 2019https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-rise-and-demise-of-rss/
       
 (DIR) Post #AnAF83G3JGsPqt7C3U by faraiwe@beige.party
       2024-10-19T12:32:09Z
       
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       @strypey the hilariousness is, every few years I read something about how come "RSS is dead"This has been going on for decades. #RSS is still "dead" every few years.Indeed....
       
 (DIR) Post #AnAhBqd30IxEYgTA5g by keengrasp@layer8.space
       2024-10-19T17:46:22Z
       
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       @strypey RSS is alive and well. Vice is dead.
       
 (DIR) Post #AnBIr4kZ6R5SX1VXrk by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
       2024-10-20T00:48:42Z
       
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       @keengrasp> RSS is alive and well. Vice is deadTouche : ) Despite the clickbait title, the article is still worth a read. As a history of RSS development. But also as a cautionary tale of the advantage given to opponents of the open web, when its advocates can't find consensus on standards.
       
 (DIR) Post #AnCetbPZ23jAYdFqd6 by keengrasp@layer8.space
       2024-10-20T16:30:06Z
       
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       @strypey definitely some parallels with the current AP / fedi / mastodon situation. I very much disagree with that author’s contention that providing an RSS feed is somehow “wistful” though - it works, easily and well across all kinds of devices and platforms, and the experience it offers feels more and more refreshing as the siloed alternatives from everyone in the “ads and surveillance” biz palpably accelerate down the doom spiral of enshittification.
       
 (DIR) Post #AnEYTjvSXgbK1iNU0W by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
       2024-10-21T14:27:52Z
       
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       Sure, I agree with all of this @keengrasp. For the niche of us committed to using open standards, it's great. Many fediverse servers feeds over RSS as well as AP, for those who are happy to lurk, and prefer reader apps that ingest RSS.I presume I use RSS feeds via a podcasts app pretty much every day. But I note that Podcasting 2.0 appears to be moving away from traditional RSS. Like most of the web these days, they're moving to a JSON format, for better or for worse.