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by gsnedders 38 days ago
RSS 2.0 is kinda an unspecified mess, and at least 15 year ago, if you wanted to be compatible with the majority of content you needed some weird heuristics to detect which interpretation of the spec a given feed was using (lol).

And Dave Winer was strongly against ever clarifying the spec, and that’s part of what led to Atom.