On: RSSHub: Everything Is RSSible

[genmon]

Absolutely agree.

What’s unusually about the feed ecosystem is that it was once popular, and now it’s present but nobody really understands it. Like, Wordpress sites are 30% of the web and they have RSS by default... but are the site owners really aware? It would be a hard push to get any of them to change.

And, for most technologies, the existing users are the best word of mouth evangelists. But here, the existing users have their own favourite apps, and if you change anything too much then they won’t evangelise.

So (imo) growing the ecosystem means finding ways that respect that situation.

[kev_da_dev → genmon]

RSS was a perfect example of the tail wagging the dog.

it never caught on because it was a protocol. not a product. and yet stubborn users for years insisted otherwise.

it's like if the internet did not have a browser; only a textfield to input urls. who would use that?