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So, I'm fiddling with content feeds today and while #rss seems pretty legacy (few creators offer it), it's freakin' OPEN. People! Social sites own your data - you don't!

Cornelia Davis

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2 Dec 2024

This article is almost 6 years old and spends a lot of words talking about whether RSS was too techie for "regular" people, which totally misses the point. APIs (which RSS is) are massively valuable even if not used directly by a consumer... www.vice.com/en/article/t...

vice.comThe Rise and Demise of RSSBefore the internet was consolidated into centralized information silos, RSS imagined a better way to let users control their online personas.

Cornelia Davis

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A small mention of the real issue: "the war that Facebook started, seemingly accidentally: the battle to own everything." and "they [Google] need everyone reading and sharing everything through Google+ so they can compete with Facebook for ad-targeting data, ad dollars, growth, and relevance."

2/12/24, 11:19 pm0 reposts0 likes

Cornelia Davis

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2 Dec 2024

Putting the app at the center, not the content, gives organizations ALL the power! 😔

Cornelia Davis

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2 Dec 2024

Into the rabbit hole I go ...

Cornelia Davis

@corneliadavis.com

2 Dec 2024

ChatGPT gets the answer right (1/3) "Facebook stopped offering an official RSS feed feature in 2013. At that time, they discontinued the ability to generate RSS feeds for user profiles, pages, and other content on the platform. ...

Cornelia Davis

@corneliadavis.com

2 Dec 2024

(2/3) "... This decision was part of a broader move to limit the open sharing of Facebook content through third-party tools and services, favoring the use of their own platform and APIs instead. ...