Whether you’re really passionate about RPC, MQTT, Matrix or wayland, tell us more about the protocols or open standards you have strong opinions on!

  • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
    3·
    11 months ago

    RSS. It’s still around but slowly dying out. I feel like it only gets added to new websites because the programmers like it.

    • Static_Rocket@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      WebSub (formerly PubSubHubbub). Should have been a proper replacement for RSS with push support instead of polling. Too bad the docs were awful and adopting it as an end user was so difficult that it never caught on.

    • mesamune@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      Theres quite a few sites that still use it and existing ones in the Fediverse have it built in (which is really cool). But your right, the general public have no concept of having something download and queue up on a service rather than just going to the site. And the RSS clients are all over the place with quality…