Technological platforms are not neutral. If we truly want to resist the digital coup that is currently under way, we need to normalize the use of free, open source solutions.
How is it dead tech if everything still works, apps are still being made and websites still publish feeds? Literally every Substack and such has an rss it’s so easy that most websites have it without knowing and don’t link it but it works anyway
Considering it’s shipped by default on the fedi, on ghost, discourse, bsky and loads of other very hot upcoming and established tools, it’s very much alive.
Just because xitter and facebook and google failed to find a way to monetize it and therefore tried to kill it doesn’t make it dead.
How is it dead tech if everything still works, apps are still being made and websites still publish feeds? Literally every Substack and such has an rss it’s so easy that most websites have it without knowing and don’t link it but it works anyway
Considering it’s shipped by default on the fedi, on ghost, discourse, bsky and loads of other very hot upcoming and established tools, it’s very much alive. Just because xitter and facebook and google failed to find a way to monetize it and therefore tried to kill it doesn’t make it dead.
Excuse me for being a bad techie, but… Wtf is rss? I’ve been around since before dsl, and rss has never been something I’ve researched or understood.
I get that it’s a feed, i think? Is it like a file that is a subscription protocol?
It stands for “Really Simple Syndication” (I think).
Its a standard for sending updates to a website, but its most commonly used to aggregate stuff like posts and articles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS