Post #3531385
2026-07-02 09:36 UTC
@jwz@mastodon.social @mjg59@nondeterministic.computer The death of rss was cultural, tho. It disappeared from people's consciousness, even in the tech sector.
A couple years back, a friend working at a large multinational software company was talking with me about this cool project his backend colleagues were thinking about, that could revolutionize how content was distributed and updated in their infrastructure. He was really surprised when, unprompted, I revealed to him details of how it could and should work, and possible pitfalls they might encounter. They were trying to reinvent RSS because nobody in the company had even heard of it.
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@darkling@mstdn.social 2026-07-02 09:53
@bovaz@misskey.social @mjg59@nondeterministic.computer @jwz@mastodon.social Sometimes you find someone absolutely determined to reinvent a wheel. I had a looong workshop where we were planning a distributed pub/sub messaging infrastructure. Got to the end of bashing out the requirements, and I said "you've just described NNTP. Let's use NNTP." Three days of workshop later, we still weren't using NNTP.
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@codinghorror@infosec.exchange 2026-07-02 11:02
@bovaz@misskey.social @mjg59@nondeterministic.computer @jwz@mastodon.social honestly RSS totally sucked as a user experience … and anyone who lacks the honesty to admit this is either lying to the world or lying to themselves. I don’t know which is worse. Not sure it matters.