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Yep, "vodcast" used to be a word in regular use, referring to RSS feeds of videos/eposides often provided by TV channels for episodes of their content. Now tha

Yep, "vodcast" used to be a word in regular use, referring to RSS feeds of videos/eposides often provided by TV channels for episodes of their content. Now that RSS has been effectively killed, this word/concept has disappeared without trace.

Gormo 5y ago
> Now that RSS has been effectively killed Does that mean that my hundreds of still-functioning RSS subscriptions are undead?
Isthatablackgsd 5y ago
RSS is not dead, it is still alive. Websites are still using them. Yes, Google Reader and browsers (well, most of them) ended support for RSS. The readers and community are still around. RSS is increasing popularly again. I have over 400 RSS feeds subscribed in QuiteRSS and FreshRSS.
- stereoradonc 5y ago
  I prefer inoreader.
- rablackburn 5y ago
  > RSS is increasing popularly again. Is this true? Every time RSS comes up we have this same discussion A: “RSS is dead” B: “well, I’m still using it and it’s great. Clearly it’s not dead!” But A and B are having two different conversations. For broad public consumption the only success RSS had was podcasts, and Spotify is actively trying to capture that open ecosystem and make it their cash cow. Kids aren’t sitting around sharing the RSS feeds they like, it’s YouTube, TikTok, Discord; all proprietary walled gardens of content. So yes, the technology isn’t dead, and the world is big enough there’s even a self-sustaining (probably) community of RSS users, but it still hasn’t quite lived up to it’s promise. Streambus is exciting because the cost of hosting content keeps dropping, maybe we can reproduce the podcast model with video now. But as always the network effect and discoverability are big hurdles to overcome. Podcasts succeeded not just because of RSS, they succeeded because Apple supported them in the iTunes Store (which is _still_ the most important place to get reviewed as a podcast) solving the discoverability problem.
  - throwawayswede 5y ago
    Depends on your definition of dead. Public recognition of what thing X they're using or relying on is not necessary for something to be "alive" or "dead", otherwise you'd have to say that TCP/IP is dead because I bet less than 10% of internet users know what that is and even less know how it works. People using podcasts still rely on RSS. Spotify's and Apple's attempt to circumvent an open-standard doesn't seem to be working as podcastindex.org already has double the amount of podcasts registered. E-commerce product feeds still (mostly) use RSS. Everyone still uses RSS, they just don't know it.
    - Jorengarenar 5y ago
      > otherwise you'd have to say that TCP/IP is dead because I bet less than 10% of internet users know what that is and even less know how it works. Barely any user knows about TCP/IP, but everybody uses it daily. Using the Internet basically means using this protocol stack. The same cannot be said about RSS
      - throwawayswede 5y ago
        Listening to podcasts means using feeds.
        Jorengarenar 5y ago
        I know it may come out as shocking, but majority of Internet users also don't listen to podcasts. And listening to podcasts doesn't mean using feeds. I personally have listened to some from YouTube; Spotify also offers them.
        throwawayswede 5y ago
        The point is that it's not dead.
        Jorengarenar 5y ago
sp332 5y ago
Another word that I liked better was IPTV. These days it's used more to describe cable-style TV channels that use IP instead of DOCSIS though. And Leo Laporte called them "netcasts" but I don't think that took off anywhere beyond his TWiT network.
raspyberr 5y ago
Ahhh yes. 95% of the population isn't using something means it's lost to history for all time never to be seen again. Things like RSS aren't designed by a company so there's no marketing budget. It's only going to spread through word of mouth. There are more ways than ever to turn sites and newsletters into RSS feeds. YouTube channels have feeds. Reddit has feeds. Frontends like Nitter to Twitter allow you to have RSS feeds. RSS feels very much alive.
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Gormo 5y ago

> Now that RSS has been effectively killed Does that mean that my hundreds of still-functioning RSS subscriptions are undead?

Isthatablackgsd 5y ago

RSS is not dead, it is still alive. Websites are still using them. Yes, Google Reader and browsers (well, most of them) ended support for RSS. The readers and community are still around. RSS is increasing popularly again. I have over 400 RSS feeds subscribed in QuiteRSS and FreshRSS.

stereoradonc 5y ago
I prefer inoreader.
rablackburn 5y ago
> RSS is increasing popularly again. Is this true? Every time RSS comes up we have this same discussion A: “RSS is dead” B: “well, I’m still using it and it’s great. Clearly it’s not dead!” But A and B are having two different conversations. For broad public consumption the only success RSS had was podcasts, and Spotify is actively trying to capture that open ecosystem and make it their cash cow. Kids aren’t sitting around sharing the RSS feeds they like, it’s YouTube, TikTok, Discord; all proprietary walled gardens of content. So yes, the technology isn’t dead, and the world is big enough there’s even a self-sustaining (probably) community of RSS users, but it still hasn’t quite lived up to it’s promise. Streambus is exciting because the cost of hosting content keeps dropping, maybe we can reproduce the podcast model with video now. But as always the network effect and discoverability are big hurdles to overcome. Podcasts succeeded not just because of RSS, they succeeded because Apple supported them in the iTunes Store (which is _still_ the most important place to get reviewed as a podcast) solving the discoverability problem.
- throwawayswede 5y ago
  Depends on your definition of dead. Public recognition of what thing X they're using or relying on is not necessary for something to be "alive" or "dead", otherwise you'd have to say that TCP/IP is dead because I bet less than 10% of internet users know what that is and even less know how it works. People using podcasts still rely on RSS. Spotify's and Apple's attempt to circumvent an open-standard doesn't seem to be working as podcastindex.org already has double the amount of podcasts registered. E-commerce product feeds still (mostly) use RSS. Everyone still uses RSS, they just don't know it.
  - Jorengarenar 5y ago
    > otherwise you'd have to say that TCP/IP is dead because I bet less than 10% of internet users know what that is and even less know how it works. Barely any user knows about TCP/IP, but everybody uses it daily. Using the Internet basically means using this protocol stack. The same cannot be said about RSS
    - throwawayswede 5y ago
      Listening to podcasts means using feeds.
      - Jorengarenar 5y ago
        I know it may come out as shocking, but majority of Internet users also don't listen to podcasts. And listening to podcasts doesn't mean using feeds. I personally have listened to some from YouTube; Spotify also offers them.
        throwawayswede 5y ago
        The point is that it's not dead.
        Jorengarenar 5y ago

sp332 5y ago

Another word that I liked better was IPTV. These days it's used more to describe cable-style TV channels that use IP instead of DOCSIS though. And Leo Laporte called them "netcasts" but I don't think that took off anywhere beyond his TWiT network.

raspyberr 5y ago

Ahhh yes. 95% of the population isn't using something means it's lost to history for all time never to be seen again. Things like RSS aren't designed by a company so there's no marketing budget. It's only going to spread through word of mouth. There are more ways than ever to turn sites and newsletters into RSS feeds. YouTube channels have feeds. Reddit has feeds. Frontends like Nitter to Twitter allow you to have RSS feeds. RSS feels very much alive.

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