I am not a developer and don't understand how this works. Can someone explain?
So this is a demo site for the app https://rss.chat
It's a kind of social network where everything is driven by RSS (Really Simple Syndication)
its the same technology behind Podcasts, you subscribe to it and when a new episode comes in, you GET it, instead of having to look for it right ?
so here it's the same concept, but around TEXT and interactions between people in the context of a "Chat app"
Concretely, when you wrote this question, you added your first entry to your own RSS feed on this demo site, I could take this feed and subscribe to it and then get your future new posts on my feed reader.
This is also valid for me, my reply to you is an entry in my own RSS feed, tied to my user/profile, anyone here using the demo can reply, each of their replies and the replies to their replies is going to be structured like a tree, properly threaded so that anyone could follow the conversation, even outside of here, in their own feed reader.
I tried to avoid getting into too much tech jargon so I hope my explainer is okay :))