JohnP Yeah true, true, but, browsers used to detect feeds or have built in feed readers. Everyone pushed, “subscribe to my feed!” Even Twitter had RSS feeds. It was the fediverse before the fediverse.
So, still around, yes, largely thanks to WordPress. But, other giants and browsers don’t push it which keeps it dormant especially to new Internet users such as the up and coming Alpha Gen. They and other generations won’t know to try /feed. Or, even what a feed reader is. Because there aren’t, “subscribe to my feed,” or RSS logos everywhere.
Not to mention many newer software or open source projects like this one don’t implement RSS/ATOM in core. Why? Because RSS is dormant because social media and browsers have tried their best to kill it.
Also, this just popped in my head… before “API” became one of the biggest acronyms in the last decade, back when no one had an “API,” you’d extract bits of information from RSS feeds and put it in widgets or bots. In my opinion, it was/is easier for an average person, like me 🙂, to do cool things with a RSS feed, than figure out an API.
I guess we’ve made the Internet faster and more secure, but it’s more complex with everyone having their own, sometimes closed off, APIs that aren’t easy for everyone to use. And I bring up API just because it’s the closest popular modern thing I can think of that can be somewhat like a RSS feed.
