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Suppose someone registered a vendor-neutral, collectively owned* domain `feedme.example`. A static site would be hosted there. Instead of everyone being compe
by cxr 4y ago
Suppose someone registered a vendor-neutral, collectively owned* domain `feedme.example`. A static site would be hosted there. Instead of everyone being compelled to do one-off integrations with the most popular commercial services, they would instead link to their own feed e.g. as <https://feedme.example/#!/https://meta.discourse.org/posts.rss https://feedme.example/#!/https://meta.discourse.org/posts.r...>. The user's preferred reading app would be accessible in client-side storage for the feedme.example origin, and when the user actually lands on <https://feedme.example/#!/https://meta.discourse.org/posts.rss https://feedme.example/#!/https://meta.discourse.org/posts.r...>, it redirects to the appropriate service, assuming the user has already set it up. If they haven't, the feedme.example SPA prompts them to set it up. Client software will be free to hardcode support for this well-known name and provide native equivalence to the purpose that the softcoded feedme.example serves. A sort of lame re-invention of Web Intents; alternatively, basically the same as registering a new URI scheme with IANA, except there's a web-based fallback.
* or collectively managed, at least; in the vein of w3id.org, for example