> I think the solution is a set of improvements. RSS as a protocol needs to be expanded so that it can offer more data around prioritization as well as other signals critical to making the technology more effective at the reader layer.
Maybe it's a failure of my imagination, but I'm having trouble coming up with anything at the protocol level that wouldn't make RSS worse as a general protocol, though it might improve at specific cases.
Leave the protocol simple, let innovation happen at the client level, and then if necessary enhance the protocol to support generally effective solutions.
"4. Adding value to the Internet lowers its value.
Maybe it's a failure of my imagination, but I'm having trouble coming up with anything at the protocol level that wouldn't make RSS worse as a general protocol, though it might improve at specific cases.
Leave the protocol simple, let innovation happen at the client level, and then if necessary enhance the protocol to support generally effective solutions.
"4. Adding value to the Internet lowers its value.
5. All the Internet's value grows on its edges."
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