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Isn't RSS better than all other federation protocols?

You have four properties of feeds: category, tree-comment, real-time and persistent.

Reddit was the winner on all those except real-time.

Decentralization is now the most important feature, and taking responsibility of your own data is the best version of that.

The only missing part is decentralized RSS servers and clients. Think backup for your posts and RSS reader services that also backup your favorite feeds.

All you need for that is a distributed db underlying it all like this: http://root.rupy.se and a reader web tool.

The only feature we lack is a category (think hashtag) for RSS.

So a combination of all services below:

http://fuse.rupy.se

http://sprout.rupy.se

http://tentacle.rupy.se

http://talk.binarytask.com

Add mail and video hosting/streaming and you got the complete deal.




How do you like and reply within RSS?



There was once the Salmon protocol for enabling replies and comments swimming upstream. Salmon was part of the OStatus protocol which evolved into ActivityPub today.


The whole like score rank thing is kinda overblown.

Reply works fine and comments too even if only local.




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