I wish a protocol similar to RSS, but with the opposite direction, were more viable. Having to periodically poll a bunch of RSS feeds strikes me as flawed.
You could make it do something like webhooks but I’m seeing two issues with this, in no particular order:
Each outlet would need to push to six gorillion different places requiring webhooks, and
Each place wanting to use webhooks would need to be equipped to listen on a given port or something
It’s effective in some ways to just require polling, it just irritates me that there isn’t a more elegant solution. I do use RSS but I don’t use it entirely in a user capacity. By this I mean I like RSS because it’s easily processable by a computer, allowing me to do things like make RSS –> fedi bots, although I haven’t done much of that lately.
@NEETzsche@sjw@shibao Yeah, that is pretty noticeable when shit from months ago pops up onto my feed like it's new. I don't know how you would be able to do it any other way though.