People assume rss.chat is going to go the same route as twitter or mastodon, and it isn’t.
This is going to remain a small group. That doesn’t mean our posts can’t be viewed in other places, together, as collections of people you follow. We already have experience doing just that, in feed readers. The user interfaces there might be different. And there can be more elegant ways of editing your subs. And sharing subs among services. We already support that tech in FeedLand, btw.
The social networks we’ve been using have a lot of dead ends, by design, lot of “you can’t get there from here.” We’ve got the opposite philosophy. Small pieces loosely joined and every part replaceable. That gets you to new places we’ve never been before.
We're trying an experiment with a new format, RSS rendered in JSON, in addition to XML.
https://rss.chat/feed?screenname=dave&format=json
This only applies in that one kind of feed, the other formats haven't been modified, but we do plan to do this across the board. If we generate something in XML we will also generate it in JSON.
Just wanted everyone to see this, it's not earth-shaking -- but it's time to put this out there. For whatever reason no one listened to RSS, but imho it had something to say. :-)
Thanks. You can see why I push back when people think of this as a product.
So many people don't think in terms of small pieces loosely joined. The power of my product is not in all its features but all the things that are left undone, that are possible.
That's simply the web. For 12 years before the silos, the web was that malleable. That's how we made blogs, feeds, podcasts happen. The bigco's tried to get in the way, but it didn't work because the people knew what they were entitled to.
A peptalk for devs.
http://scripting.com/2026/07/18/143021.html
I just started writing about where we are, one week after launch.
Yeah it's only been a week! :-)
This is a test post for an experiment claude is running.
Test post.