@davew there are some APIs and systems and protocols which are not owned by corporations but have self sustaining economic reasons why they continue to work.

These are gems in the rough. This is the basis for the Podping notification system we're using to signal rss feed updates and going live for livestreaming podcasts.

@brianoflondon

How does it compare to rssCloud?

https://github.com/scripting/reallysimple/blob/main/demos/clouddemo/readme.md

@davew Podping replaces WebSub with something that doesn't rely on Google or SuperFeedr i.e. it doesn't rely on big tech.

It is trivial to "watch" the stream of podpings by watching the blocks on the public Hive blockchain and via multiple redundant public API servers or running your own "node" of Hive can be done for <$50 per month but this isn't necessary.

From this river of podpings you can take action and rescan any RSS feed you're interested in.

Hosting co's send the signals out.

@brianoflondon

You didn’t answer my question.

@davew I can't understand how rssCloud is supposed to be run and by whom? Is it needed to be run by every rss feed host and how does it give a single place to look for updates to all rss feeds? If each host runs that service do I have to look somewhere for a list of such servers to check?

I'm just not sure what rssCloud does from those docs but I could be missing something.

@brianoflondon

Read the docs and the code, and ask for help if you need it.

Reinventing existing protocols isn’t something to be proud of.

I’m going to mute you so no point responding.