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   Richard MacManus (ricmac@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 18-Sep-2025 23:08:38 JST Richard MacManus

   Alright, buckle up internet history fans: we've come to the RSS Format Wars! The year 2000 was when RSS got forked into 2 different protocols: Dave Winer's RSS 0.92 and the RDF-based RSS 1.0. What's remarkable, looking back, is that the top bloggers of the day — Kottke, CamWorld, Rebecca Blood, Brad Graham, and others — still weren't using RSS by the end of that year. But they *were* building blogrolls. https://cybercultural.com/p/blogs-rss-2000/ #InternetHistory #RSS

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     Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Thursday, 18-Sep-2025 23:09:25 JST Anil Dash

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     • Simon MacDonald

     @macdonst @ricmac so… you’re saying we should make another one?

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     Simon MacDonald (macdonst@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 18-Sep-2025 23:09:26 JST Simon MacDonald

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     @ricmac As someone who is building an RSS reader for fun, not profit, the various formats are still a pain to deal with in 2025.

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     Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Friday, 19-Sep-2025 04:11:29 JST Anil Dash

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     • Simon MacDonald

     @macdonst @ricmac idea: *two* new formats

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     Simon MacDonald (macdonst@mastodon.online)'s status on Friday, 19-Sep-2025 04:11:30 JST Simon MacDonald

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     • Anil Dash

     @anildash @ricmac Please, I'm begging you…no.