RSS is dying and that means the web is next

[Jeff MacKinnon, P.Eng.]

If you don’t know what RSS is check out this article – https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/what-is-an-rss-feed/

RSS is really simple syndication, it is a way that you can share your content to a lot of readers automatically. You as a reader, can read the articles are your leisure and everything is openly linked together. This is Web 2.0, this is when “blogs: and “bloggers” were a thing. It was beautiful.

Did you know that podcasts wouldn’t work without RSS?

With the advent of Twitter and other social media platforms, people started jsut linking there and not keeping up with their feeds. Over time readers stopped using their feed readers and relied on social media to tell them what was interesting.

This was the slippery slope of walled gardens and removing control of the user, you, to what you see and handing that over to algorithms that have a goal of creating a reaction.

I have RSS feeds for all the content on this site. In fact, if you go to any category and add “/feed” to the URL you get the rss feed. https://jmkengineering.com/topics/education/feed/

I will always have RSS feeds.

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