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by lvxferre
1580 days ago
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A lot* of the criticism against RSS/Atom that I've seen on the internet boils down to appeal to novelty; both are old, so assumed to be "bad". But hey, they work. They fill a purpose - they warn you about updates in a site that you might want to check out. They do one thing, and do it well; and for me that "one thing" can be new manga series to read, new videos to watch, news from my city's site (it has RSS), so goes on. How exactly would be this "bad"? *"a lot" is not "all". |
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1. Closed platform - Places like Spotify, Twitter, Facebook, etc, are dis-incentivized to help you consume content unless they can get you trapped in their UI with your logged in account.
2. Web as a program - Tonnes of people are trying to replace websites with 'apps' and replace programs with the web, neither of which lend themselves nicely to being RSS friendly.
3. RSS popularity - Very few people (compared to the majority of the web) are consuming RSS. Most users will be using Chrome/Firefox/Safari/Edge only. They get their notifications by keeping tabs open or via push notifications.
I think the way forwards is to normalise RSS by rebuilding it into the web. I've often thought about what and RSS-based social media may look like. It's a shame Open Graph [1] didn't use more RSS functionality.
[1] https://ogp.me/