in the 2010s, big companies were avoiding open standards such as RSS. now, they are actively coming up with new open standards for AI like MCP and google just released A2A

what has changed?

I was remembering recently how in the early 2010s, RSS was being chastised for "stealing" traffic from websites.

Reminded me of LLMs today.

A doodler and computerer. I like permissive/permissionless open source, smart contracts, p2p systems, room-scale VR, and NixOS.

shazow.net

Currently: WhatsABI

giving websites distribution = "stealing" traffic 🤔

some readers would add their own ads or replace affiliate links!

i guess readers didn't have a way to monetize

"Do you think Ashton or Oprah cares about open protocols?  I doubt it. But someday they will care – when the internet is less open, less reliable and less secure."

great post by @cdixon.eth i was revisiting the other day

"Do you think Ashton or Oprah cares about open protocols?  I doubt it. But someday they will care – when the internet is less open, less reliable and less secure."

great post by @cdixon.eth i was revisiting the other day

https://cdixon.org/2009/09/29/twitter-killed-rss-and-thats-a-bad-thing

not how I would describe it, but let's just say it was a contentious time that has been largely forgotten in favour of whining about google reader being sunset