alt Hacker NewsMy take on the RSS-renaissance chestnut: The original sin is the name. Only clueless nerds could come up with such a soporific, opaque, geeky moniker as "RSS". It should have been called "Webfeed". Then there would be no explaining to do.
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benrutter • today at 9:59 AM
This is a great point. Maybe we can start now?
Apparently is is called web feed, although I never have heard this until I searched off the back of your comment[0].
Apparently, web feed also encompasses Atom and JSON feed as well as RSS, which is probably more in the spirit of how people actually say "RSS".
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andai • today at 12:02 PM
It's simple. It stands for Radically Syndicated Seeds... right?
stabbles • today at 10:18 AM
Sure, naming is important, but the RSS icon was well known. It was part of the Firefox address bar.
And at the same time, the fastest growing consumer product of all time is called ”ChatGPT”.