It's less that atom/RSS is "dead", and more that its "done".
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It's less that atom/RSS is "dead", and more that its "done".
The protocol is finished. It works well. It's stable and unremarkable as opposed to trendy.
And to capitalists, that's "dead".
Nothing to hype, no wealth to extract.
@socketwench Biiiig fan. Still use it to this day.

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It's less that atom/RSS is "dead", and more that its "done".
The protocol is finished. It works well. It's stable and unremarkable as opposed to trendy.
And to capitalists, that's "dead".
Nothing to hype, no wealth to extract.
@socketwench Once Google works out how to inject ads into a RSS feed they'll bring back Reader.
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It's less that atom/RSS is "dead", and more that its "done".
The protocol is finished. It works well. It's stable and unremarkable as opposed to trendy.
And to capitalists, that's "dead".
Nothing to hype, no wealth to extract.
@socketwench it's infrastructure, so it's exploitable until it breaks or is no longer what society needs or uses. Like an old bridge.
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It's less that atom/RSS is "dead", and more that its "done".
The protocol is finished. It works well. It's stable and unremarkable as opposed to trendy.
And to capitalists, that's "dead".
Nothing to hype, no wealth to extract.
@socketwench@masto.hackers.town we need to produce new things and deprecate the old right away, and then pay people to fix the new thing and make it behave like the old one, thats how you created value !
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@socketwench@masto.hackers.town we need to produce new things and deprecate the old right away, and then pay people to fix the new thing and make it behave like the old one, thats how you created value !
@jaggi And this is how we got the glass UI in macOS.
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It's less that atom/RSS is "dead", and more that its "done".
The protocol is finished. It works well. It's stable and unremarkable as opposed to trendy.
And to capitalists, that's "dead".
Nothing to hype, no wealth to extract.
@socketwench There's a lot to be said for something that is simply "Feature Complete."
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It's less that atom/RSS is "dead", and more that its "done".
The protocol is finished. It works well. It's stable and unremarkable as opposed to trendy.
And to capitalists, that's "dead".
Nothing to hype, no wealth to extract.
@socketwench It's the bedrock of so much of the remaining "good" internet. I use it every day.
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It's less that atom/RSS is "dead", and more that its "done".
The protocol is finished. It works well. It's stable and unremarkable as opposed to trendy.
And to capitalists, that's "dead".
Nothing to hype, no wealth to extract.
@socketwench Awwww, the poor widdle capitalists! Let me play a sad song on my tiny violin for them!
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It's less that atom/RSS is "dead", and more that its "done".
The protocol is finished. It works well. It's stable and unremarkable as opposed to trendy.
And to capitalists, that's "dead".
Nothing to hype, no wealth to extract.
@socketwench The great insight I got from reading Cory Doctorow is that companies are not interesting in providing a stable revenue-generating service. They are interested in growth. Which means anything that simply works well is of no use to them.
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It's less that atom/RSS is "dead", and more that its "done".
The protocol is finished. It works well. It's stable and unremarkable as opposed to trendy.
And to capitalists, that's "dead".
Nothing to hype, no wealth to extract.
@socketwench I read someone's criticism of atom/RSS was "but I can't do analytics on my viewers!"
like, yeah
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@socketwench Biiiig fan. Still use it to this day.

@ann3nova @socketwench Which app do you use on phone. I use Neo Feed but most of the time it freezes or has some other bugs
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@ann3nova @socketwench Which app do you use on phone. I use Neo Feed but most of the time it freezes or has some other bugs
@Squirrel_767 @socketwench I use Capy Reader. I like it a lot.

Capy Reader | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
A smallish RSS reader
(f-droid.org)
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It's less that atom/RSS is "dead", and more that its "done".
The protocol is finished. It works well. It's stable and unremarkable as opposed to trendy.
And to capitalists, that's "dead".
Nothing to hype, no wealth to extract.
@socketwench@masto.hackers.town
RSS was beautiful 25 years ago and is still beautiful today. -
It's less that atom/RSS is "dead", and more that its "done".
The protocol is finished. It works well. It's stable and unremarkable as opposed to trendy.
And to capitalists, that's "dead".
Nothing to hype, no wealth to extract.
@socketwench We need more „boring“ tech in our life. Stuff that just works. Where we figured out a good solution to a requirement and can carry on. Like loo rolls and plumbing.
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@socketwench Once Google works out how to inject ads into a RSS feed they'll bring back Reader.
@avatastic @socketwench they already did. if i remember right, there were ads in reader and feedburner.
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@jaggi And this is how we got the glass UI in macOS.
@socketwench @jaggi And the Glass UI is, for lack of a better term... YUCK.
I know it wasn't perfect either, but at least Aqua was visually pleasing and worked very well for what it was. For that I'd much rather stick to the older macOS versions if I needed a Mac for anything.