What Mastodon is to ActivityPub . . .

Wordpress is to RSS.

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PineBookPro is to Raspberry Pi 400

As

Friendica is to Mastodon.

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I’ve had this idea of the ActivityPub Protocol powering Mastodon, Threads, & others in The Fediverse, as a kind of Rube-Goldberg Machine.

What kind of Rube-Goldberg Machine ?

The MouseTrap Boardgame from childhood !

I captioned the following images to get the idea out of my head.

cf. Two-Way RSS which remains Simple and Direct...

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@HiMYSYeD

interesting analogy.

something to think about..

@davew The CODA would be . . .

As Napster i̶s̶ ̶ was to P2P.

@HiMYSYeD

the thing is there would be other products that could claim ownership of RSS -- like Google Reader, which still controls the market almost 10 years after its demise.

and twitter, by not supporting RSS is also a big definer of RSS, in a negative way.

i think we'll be on solid ground once RSS defines itself and the products get out of the way.

i wrote something about that today on my blog, first item.

http://scripting.com/2023/01/11.html#a175023

Scripting News: Wednesday, January 11, 2023

It's even worse than it appears..

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@davew Grateful.

Thank you.

Let RSS be RSS

RSS is what we use to move documents around the web. That we haven't cared for it is why the current system is so fucked.

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@davew I want to speak.

Say it out loud,

This is more important than re-blogging using Silos.

I want to speak.

Say it again.

This is more important than replacing Google Reader.

Now we're in business.

What's happening?

We got our asses kicked in the Twitter Era but it's time to get up off the matt.

Yes!

I'm gonna talk to the Devs,

Gonna take them off the leash.

You have a strategy for all this?

I have the beginnings of one.

What is it?

"Let RSS be RSS."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ9-3NxTzQ8

Let Barlet Be Bartlet ending !!

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@HiMYSYeD I didn't realise Wordpress used RSS!

@tmsteph Illustrating by using the Wordpress dot Org News

For example :

https://wordpress.org/news/feed/

RSS Feed for Wordpress comments,

Append /feed :

https://wordpress.org/news/comments/feed/

Enjoy your RSS !