@djsumdog @Zergling_man @strypey The other problem, aside from politics in Mozilla and the like, is very simple.

Big tech companies and journalists worked to kill RSS in the mainstream (compare how everything in the late 00s had it to even 5 years later) for a very good reason; it eliminates a locus of control.

The death of RSS was talked about in Trust Me I'm Lying, and for a good reason. RSS was a firehose feed of news stories. Google News (and similar social media feeds), aside from being able to blacklist any news source that is unapproved by the employees and Google themselves, is also slanted towards whoever writes the most bombastic, clickbait, fear mongering or sensational headlines.

Sure, people like LFJ will talk about how it's your duty in big tech to nip it in the bud and do something, and Google will have documents like the Good Censor PDF file leak, yet this entire format of media is at it's core flawed.

You can't go link a CNN RSS feed anymore aside from a bitrotted XML file that is stuck with news stories from 2018, and other sites have buried away or have dead feeds. Or they'll want you to use some shit like feedly to get the feed. You're instead normally expected to use Google News or Facebook to pull the latest news feeds.

Look how often people share fake stories here or stories that are out of date as if they came out today or yesterday, the same shit goes on over in the normiesphere and this is all because what gets people pumped is scary news stories or crazy ones.

This is just one example. They will never let something like OpenID succeed, if they can have people tied into the walled gardens of Google/MSFT/FB, and when it's not about control it's about money and datamining.