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Excellent article on the rise and fall of #RSS by Sinclair Target[1]. Not just a precise story of an unfortunate fork it can also be read as an appeal to not repeat the same mistakes from the past when developing new frameworks for #decentralization and #federation.
Dealing with #ActivityPub and the discussion about its pros and cons[2] we should set up a moderating unit to accompany further development.
[1]: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3mm4z/the-rise-and-demise-of-rss
[2]: eg. https://schub.io/blog/2019/01/13/activitypub-final-thoughts-one-year-later.html
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@xldrkp I mean, sure, but I still use it, and people still use IRC and NNTP. And I feel like RSS (well, Atom) scratches an itch way better than any of the silos (I never bought into the whole "Twitter is a better RSS" thing and I certainly don't think Facebook replaces it for me either) and it also handles my needs as both a publisher and a reader than ActivityPub.
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Dealing with the aspect of velocity when developing and establishing standards an article by Moxie Marlinspike on Signal comes to my mind.[1]
[1]: https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/