There's also been some political strife with the RSS Advisory Board. Yahoo designed the Media RSS specification. Later, Aaron Swartz led a redesign and fork.
Walled garden content aggregation is significantly more profitable than free syndication (e.g., Reddit, Facebook) The protocol competes with internet advertising models (Google search ads, Facebook feed ads) and subscription models. Commercial incentives work against RSS.As email newsletters grow, RSS is a decent alternative to an increasingly cluttered email inbox. Substack has revitalized the blogging movement by giving away free hosting and email lists, and a business model for supporting writers.Maybe that's OK for email (and podcasts), but not for generic blog content. Unfortunately, email content isn't as rich as the JavaScript-powered web today. RSS readers act like email clients in how they render content via HTML.Some unordered thoughts about the forces acting on RSS.
Substack rss reader update#
Substack has recently launched an RSS reader otherwise, there isn't a vibrant ecosystem pushing forward the protocol (the last protocol update was 2009). In addition, you can read RSS updates with an RSS reader (e.g., feedly). This site has an RSS feed you can subscribe to. Today, most podcasts are distributed via RSS. Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is a protocol that lets you subscribe to website updates – e.g., new blog posts, podcasts, or anything else.
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