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minus-squareEugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·1 month agoI think it would be hard to re-invent RSS for money, it’s part of why it’s so simple. RSS as a service makes sense for backend, not front end where most of the money would be made. And killing RSS is… Kinda here? It’s difficult to get a RSS feed on most websites, unless you can scrape it or find someone who’s done it for you. Man I should use RSS more…
minus-squaremoseschrute@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 month agoI get that the idea of rss is sort of a universal protocol for publishing articles, which is really cool, but damnit if you make me parse XML in 2025. As a developer, I would be ok if they modernized RSS feeds. Something like this
minus-squareyessikglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoAlmost all podcasts use RSS so seems pretty alive to me
I think it would be hard to re-invent RSS for money, it’s part of why it’s so simple.
RSS as a service makes sense for backend, not front end where most of the money would be made.
And killing RSS is… Kinda here? It’s difficult to get a RSS feed on most websites, unless you can scrape it or find someone who’s done it for you.
Man I should use RSS more…
I get that the idea of rss is sort of a universal protocol for publishing articles, which is really cool, but damnit if you make me parse XML in 2025. As a developer, I would be ok if they modernized RSS feeds.
Something like this
JSON!
Almost all podcasts use RSS so seems pretty alive to me