RSS as a W3C standard? Now there’s an idea
28 January 2025
If the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) can adopt ActivityPub as a recommendation, something they did eight years ago, you have to wonder why they didn’t do the same for RSS.
The W3C should’ve gotten behind RSS long before they endorsed ActivityPub. They’re controlled by big companies who are truly scared of interop, explains why most of their proposed standards go nowhere.
One of the functions of web standards, published by the W3C, is interoperability:
W3C web standards are optimized for interoperability, security, privacy, web accessibility, and internationalization.
Interoperability, however, is also a tenet of the ActivityPub recommendation:
W3C’s role in making the Recommendation is to draw attention to the specification and to promote its widespread deployment. This enhances the functionality and interoperability of the Web.
We can have the ActivtyPub protocol, which has interoperability at it’s core, but not RSS, which is the same.
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