Dave Winer ☕️Dec 3, 2022

Mastodon which is incredibly hot, supports RSS beautifully.

Just add .rss to any account to get the feed. Amazing!

https://mastodon.social/@davew.rss

Open that in your favorite feed reader. It’ll work.

Post a screenshot, say what the reader app is.

And pass this on to everyone who uses a feed reader.

Spread the word!

This is a huge deal for the open web.

Show threadAlex GizisDec 3, 2022
@davew sorry, dumb question, but why is that great? I mean i see i can read toots in an rss reader, but i already have too many apps made for reading toots. I know you can use it to trigger stuff like ifttt for automation. I have Rss feeds i’d like to import into mastodon, which would seem to make more sense, but isn’t supported
Show threadDave Winer ☕️Dec 3, 2022

@AlexGizis -- it gives us a lever to get Twitter to follow suit and support RSS in their product. See this blog post.

http://scripting.com/2022/12/02/005224.html

Users as advocates

It's even worse than it appears..

Scripting News
Show threadAlex GizisDec 3, 2022
@davew thanks, i see. i assume they’ll crash twitter before they open it up, but it would be better if opened like that!
Show threadDave Winer ☕️
@AlexGizis -- glad you agree! 🙂
Dec 3, 2022 at 1:13amWeb
Show threadDave Winer ☕️Dec 3, 2022
@AlexGizis -- here's another angle. the more people read via RSS, the more options there will be beyond Mastodon. Because RSS is easier to support than Activity Pub and a lot more devs already understand how it works.
Show threadCassandrichDec 3, 2022
@davew @AlexGizis RSS is a consume-only flow. I'd much rather build communities with bidirectional interaction and discovery. But it does have its place too and I'm glad the 'don supports it.
Show threadKingsley Uyi IdehenDec 3, 2022

@davew,

Here's yet another angle:

#RSS solves for publication and syndication of posts.

See: https://tinyurl.com/bdex5wys

#ActivityPub solves for Activity Streams which goes beyond posts.

See: https://tinyurl.com/2mxk3rjh

Ultimately, #HTTP software agents will be able to process structured data consuming either.

In my case, it all ends up in a #KnowledgeGraph (using a bookmarking-like interaction pattern). All the data is accessible via #SQL, #SPARQL, #GraphQL, etc..

/cc @AlexGizis @judell

About: Had a busy day experimenting with #gptChat. Here's a summary, generated by our #DataTwingler bot. https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/twingler/?uri=https://twitter.com/kidehen/status/1598804598663389184/cc @judell #ExplainableAI #KnowledgeGraph #SemanticWeb #Web30 #LinkedData #OpenWeb