> Every user's RSS reader polling every website for changes every few minutes for all eternity is horribly inefficient I think you're greatly overestimating th

> Every user's RSS reader polling every website for changes every few minutes for all eternity is horribly inefficient I think you're greatly overestimating this inefficiency. Especially for websites properly implementing the HTTP protocol. 'Push' requires a lot more complexity and it's also outside of the user's control. For fuck's sake, you can just serve a static file. We've been doing this for decades. Talking about control, my hypothesis is that it was the main driver of the downfall of RSS. It started when Google killed Reader and Facebook took control of what you see in the timeline. Users picking and choosing what/when to read is not compatible with the way the major gatekeepers of information drive engagement.