Re:It's time to head back to RSS?
by mosselman on Saturday March 31, 2018 @06:11AM
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That is a keen observation. I guess rss is a technology from simpler and more explorative times of the internet instead of the current oppressive and commercialized phase we are going through now.
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Re:It's time to head back to RSS?
by icebraining on Saturday March 31, 2018 @07:40AM
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Eh, the surveillance was weaker, but I'm not sure about the commercialization. RSS is from 99/00, the era of Punch The Monkey flash banner ads and dozens of popups and popunders.
From what I can tell, RSS was the equivalent of today's OpenGraph. It was a tool for a company (Netscape) to slurp content into its portal. It's just that AOL then blundered when they bought Netscape and removed support for RSS, which then became a de-facto standard format.
In fact, as RSS popularity wanes, a feed reader that can reader OG tags is probably a good idea.