I would love to see a resurgence in RSS instead of all the bloat thats so prevalent nowadays.
Neat idea.
RSS is still how most podcasts get distributed. (Excluding Spotify)
I use RSS all the time. In fact, it’s how I read my tech news. And if a site is dumb enough to break their RSS feed, well then I no longer use their site.
Where do you subscribe?
I was an avid RSS user ten years ago but Web 2.0 replaced it.
I subscribe to several YouTube channels through RSS thanks to new pipe telling me they existed. I also subscribe to fdroid’s blog, CoinDesk, and tech sections of Epoch Times and New York Post. However, most of my tech news I end up getting from Lemmy, so don’t use those very often.
It’s a neat idea but it still requires hosting and for the vast unwashed masses who don’t want to buy a domain and setup hosting for this stuff at the end of the day I fear this would be Facebook with extra steps.
There are some other federated social sites besides lemmy that something like this could be added to, but they’re not as big, afaik.
Most org/people still use FB, Twtr, Instagram. However, I do find it useful for YouTube.
RSS sucks. Activity Streams are a better in every way (other than compatibility established software, obviously).
If you’re building anything new that uses RSS today, I encourage you to do both RSS and Activity Streams. Or just do what I do, and only do AS.
