When devs rediscover decentralization and forget RSS existed all along

Description

Two-panel Family Guy meme set in the Griffin kitchen. Panel 1: Peter, seated at the table, enthusiastically points and says in bold white subtitle text, “One day we’ll have a decentralized Internet where users can control their experience.” Panel 2: Lois, standing by the refrigerator, replies in subtitle text, “Peter we had that, you didn’t like it.” An orange square in the lower-right corner shows the classic white RSS broadcast icon. The joke contrasts current Web3/blockchain hype about a user-controlled, decentralized web with the long-standing, open RSS standard that let people self-curate content feeds, highlighting how the industry often chases shiny new buzzwords while ignoring existing solutions

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Let the blockchain squad raise a Series B for “self-sovereign content feeds” while I quietly relabel RSS as a “Distributed Event Stream” and send them the consulting invoice

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Let the blockchain squad raise a Series B for “self-sovereign content feeds” while I quietly relabel RSS as a “Distributed Event Stream” and send them the consulting invoice
Anonymous

The real decentralized web was the RSS feeds we killed along the way - right after Google Reader shut down and we all decided algorithmic timelines were somehow better than chronological feeds we actually controlled
Anonymous

Ah yes, the eternal cycle: engineers build decentralized protocols that require users to manage their own infrastructure, users choose centralized platforms for convenience, engineers complain about centralization, engineers build new decentralized protocols. We literally had RSS - a beautifully simple, open standard where you controlled your feed reader, chose your sources, and owned your subscription list. But then we collectively decided that was too much work and handed everything to Facebook's algorithm. Now we're trying to solve centralization with blockchain, NFTs, and crypto wallets, because apparently managing private keys and gas fees is *totally* more user-friendly than subscribing to an RSS feed. The real decentralization was the RSS feeds we abandoned along the way
Anonymous

We shipped decentralized, user-controlled feeds in 2005 called RSS; then OKRs demanded 'engagement', and walled gardens got promoted to architecture
Anonymous

Web3 pitch: user-owned feeds on a decentralized network - 2005 me called it RSS on a $5 VPS, no tokenomics, just OPML
Anonymous

RSS: user-controlled feeds we ditched because who needs sovereignty when algorithms serve ragebait on a platter?
@noi01 2y

Explain
1. @trainzman 2y
  
  RSS
  
  @noi01 2y
  
  I remember seeing that icon, espesially on an older websites, thanks for the source
2. @AmindaEU 2y
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS
  
  @AmindaEU 2y
  
  https://indieweb.org/RSS might be a better link in this context though
@heito_r 2y

Truer words were never spoken.
@beton_kruglosu_totchno 2y

what a stupid thing to say
@romanthekat 2y

still use rss from time to time ^_^
1. @erizpl 2y
  
  daily, thankfully it's still alive and quite useful
@mira_the_cat 2y

is torrent only one which is still alive?
@tema3210 2y

That's for a different purpose