RSS by Jayeless.net, 23 Auguest 2025:
RSS declined in prominence as social media rose. When “being social on the internet” revolved much more around blogging, RSS was a convenient way to subscribe to all your friends’ blogs and be notified when they had new posts available. The other main way was to maintain a blogroll – a list of links to your friends’ blogs, usually in your blog’s sidebar but sometimes on its own page – and individually click through and check every site just in case there was a new post available. Some web browsers would provide their own options, too; for example, Firefox used to have “live bookmarks”, which would notify you when that site had an update to its RSS feed.
My main RSS news feed: https://samwilson.id.au/news.rss
(or Wikimedia.rss, Fremantle.rss, OpenStreetMap.rss, etc. for topic feeds).
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