The thing is that #RSS is the best. Social media sites don't like RSS because it breeds independence. Which is exactly why #creators should be using and promoting RSS. You can whine about the #algorithm or you can work on freeing your self from its clutches.
@oligneisti I don't get the nostalgia for RSS. It's not like we don't have better protocols / ways of interacting online. And it has a glaring strike against it - it's XML-based.
@AlgoCompSynth@oligneistihttps://jsonfeed.org exists. RSS is one of the few shining beacons of what XML can do, and many sites still offer RSS feeds, so it's still relevant, while JSON Feeds are quite new.
While I would love each #Creator to have their own site where they host their stuff I think that #RSS might work with a minimal structure.
Many people have a central hub which links to all their profiles. The extremely minimal addition would be just a link to an #RSSFeed people can subscribe to.
If people #CrossPost content then the feed should have one entry which links to the different platforms (or your self hosted one).
There could be an actual page with embedded content as well.
Speaking of #Podcasts and #RSS. I have often wondered if there is an easy way to make a feed to recommend #Podcast episodes to people.
I could just share an episode to the feed and write a few words of recommendation. People could add the feed to their podcast app and listen to those episode individually but with an easy way to subscribe to that podcast using an included link. This feed would simply link to the episode file, not copy it.
@oligneisti You could do this with ListenNotes playlists, or Huffduffer. Would definitely simplify to have it integrated in the podcatcher. Maybe some have this, not sure.
@oligneisti@brentsimmons Back when RSS was popular, I knew an SEO who joked that RSS stands for Really Simple Stealing. If one has no scruples, they can take your RSS feed content and put it on another site to create link farms. Publishers don’t like it because people don’t need to come to their site to read the content. One of those cases where good UX is bad for business.
@awoodsnet@oligneisti@brentsimmons It speaks of two radically different visions of the internet free speech v capitalism. Creators like Cory Doctorow still seem to make a living despite making their content freely available.
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