Making RSS and Blogs Better

Dave Winer Why did Twitter win? Because the RSS developers wouldn’t work with each other. Thus subscribing to a feed was complicated. In Twitter, it a single click to subscribe, and another to unsub. You could also see who your friends subscribed to, again – one click to subscribe to one of the feeds. And eventually that grew into a Suggested Users List. RSS had none of that because the RSS devs refused to work with each other. Dave is, of course, the biggest cheerleader of RSS in our industry. Rightfully so, the man created it.🙏🏼 Like Dave I see RSS as a great way to pull data, like a feed reader does, and push data. That latter bit is only used in one place I’m aware of: Micro.blog. I’d love to see Mastodon, Bluesky, WordPress, and many others support the import of RSS as a way to create posts. That would be a nice to have. As Dave points out we’re missing one click subscriptions and recommendations. Which are big in the social network scene. What else are we missing? Discovery…