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Facebook has already embraced, extended, and extinguished RSS. The expectation is that they will do the same with ActivityPub if given a chance. They are also
by egypturnash 3y ago
Facebook has already embraced, extended, and extinguished RSS. The expectation is that they will do the same with ActivityPub if given a chance.
They are also well-known for tracking users across the entire internet and maintaining "shadow profiles" of people who don't even use their services. Anyone with privacy concerns[1] would not want them on the same network as themselves.
Their moderation is shit, they are happy to encourage arguments as long as they get ad views out of it. The Fediverse is generally supported by funds donated by site admins and users, who often would rather not have a place full of arguments. [2]
1: arguably anyone with privacy concerns might do well to avoid ActivityPub anyway but...
2: call it a "filter bubble" if you like, I'd rather be in one curated by myself and/or a friend than one curated by an amoral corporation
- juped 3y agono they haven't, what the hell are you talking about
- hughesjj 3y agoGoogle killing reader did more to cause the demise of rss than fb ever did That said there's totally plugins for rss in Firefox and the likes but no one uses them because why would anyone
- juped 3y agoYeah, Google killing Reader was the big driver.
- TheNewsIsHere 3y agoRSS is still very widely used. Companies like Feedly have built a livelihood on it. RSS is used extensively in editorial and publishing back offices. The AP, for example, uses it as a technical means to facilitate content syndication to thousands of their affiliates and customers. There’s an extant and modern native/mobile and web app ecosystem and no shortage of libraries to leverage it.
- fmajid 3y agoAFAIK Facebook never supported RSS, more’s the pity, nor Twitter. A big part of the pathologies of Facebook come from control over the feed prioritization algorithm, which means it favors their interest, maximizing “engagement” and thus polarizing content. This goes away entirely if you use a RSS feed reader with your own prioritization and filtering.
- captn3m0 3y agoIt supported a few feeds in 2007, and that was covered as “Facebook is opening up” and the feeds having existed for a while. https://techcrunch.com/2007/08/14/facebook-opens-up-their-data-feeds/ https://techcrunch.com/2007/08/14/facebook-opens-up-their-da..., http://scripting.com/stories/2007/08/14/facebookIsOpeningUp.html http://scripting.com/stories/2007/08/14/facebookIsOpeningUp....