I Ditched the Algorithm for RSS—and You Should Too - Joey's Hoard of Stuff
I Ditched the Algorithm for RSS—and You Should Too - Joey's Hoard of Stuff
Joey Einerhand's Portfolio and tech blog.
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this is by far my favorite way of browsing the internet nowadays. if they find a way to monetize or kill RSS, i'm getting off the internet
I think it would be hard to re-invent RSS for money, it's part of why it's so simple.
RSS as a service makes sense for backend, not front end where most of the money would be made.
And killing RSS is... Kinda here? It's difficult to get a RSS feed on most websites, unless you can scrape it or find someone who's done it for you.
Man I should use RSS more...
I get that the idea of rss is sort of a universal protocol for publishing articles, which is really cool, but damnit if you make me parse XML in 2025. As a developer, I would be ok if they modernized RSS feeds.
Almost all podcasts use RSS so seems pretty alive to me