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> As one commentator said in the linked article: protocols are better than platforms. You're right! For users this is absolutely true. Yet, almost all the com
by Kalium 8y ago
> As one commentator said in the linked article: protocols are better than platforms.
You're right! For users this is absolutely true.
Yet, almost all the companies that you might think of as potentially interested in RSS are platforms. You cannot sell ads in a protocol.
This is the core of why Twitter has replaced RSS. RSS is better for users, but Twitter is better for publishers and platforms. So users wind up following content.
- rsscircus 8y agoSorry to split hairs here but RSS is not a protocol but a syndication format: http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Atom is also a format but have proposed a publication protocol : https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5023 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5023
- Kalium 8y agoYou're completely correct! Is it perhaps possible that in this particular case, the difference you so wisely point to between a format and a protocol is possessed of a great and bountiful opportunity to be relevant? The discussion at hand is between "protocols" and "platforms", which might otherwise be cast as "standards" and "products". Again, you're completely correct. It might just be worth considering that in some cases, a distinction without difference can be of limited value to a discussion where it is at best tangential.