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So my blog [1] generates an RSS feed (early 2000s), an Atom feed (2009), a JSON feed (2017) and a Gopher [2] feed (2018). None of these formats were hard to ad
by spc476 8y ago
So my blog [1] generates an RSS feed (early 2000s), an Atom feed (2009), a JSON feed (2017) and a Gopher [2] feed (2018). None of these formats were hard to add, and of all four formats, the JSON feed has the least use. Yes, the Gopher feed gets more use than JSON. If I go by "same client picks up feed at least one per day" then the results are:
RSS: ~20 [3]
Atom: ~25 [3]
JSON: 1
gopher: 7
I don't think using JSON is any help towards a decentralized system of blogs. It's just another format to generate.
[1] http://boston.conman.org/ http://boston.conman.org/
[2] My blog is also available via gopher, gopher://gopher.conman.org/
[3] Unique user agents---probably not the best metric, but for a quick scan, easy enough to check.
Edit: formatting