Re:RSS mistakes: let's not make them again
by haakon on Wednesday July 17, 2013 @01:12PM
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It's too bad FeedTree (http://www.feedtree.net/) never caught on. Decentralised, peer-to-peer push distribution of RSS-style updates. Instead we ended up either hammering servers checking for updates, or using centralized hubs like FeedBurner, and eventually moving to completely proprietary services like Twitter and Google+.
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A feed is fundamentally centralized anyway, so I don't see the problem with relying on the feed to push updates to you. Unfortunately because Google build a super-centralized crutch into PuSH everybody thought mooching off Google was the point of PuSH so sites never installed their own hubs.