What RSS Needs
August 26, 2024
It’s also a good time to revitalise feeds. When Google killed Reader years ago, no one questioned their right to do so, even if we grumbled about it. Now, however, regulators are much more aware of the power that platforms have to tilt markets to their benefit, and many are calling for more decentralised approaches to functions that are currently only provided by concentrated intermediaries. People are also more wary of giving away their e-mail addresses for newsletters (the old-tech solution to feeds) when e-mail addresses are rapidly becoming the replacement for tracking by third-party cookies.With that in mind, here are some of the areas where I think RSS needs some help.
Source: What RSS Needs
RSS is a technology I suspect these days few are much aware of. But it powered the early stages of what we used to call “Web 2.0”, and is why podcasts work.
As we begin to consider how we might move away from the walled gardens and silos of social media and search, feeds and RSS have a significant part to play there. But having languished largely unchanged in years, it needs a little attention as Mark Nottingham discusses.
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