Summer of Protocols

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I use RSS every day! It's called my podcast player.
RSS for text didn't work because major websites only started putting out headlines rather than the whole article in their feeds: they want you to click through for the ad impressions.
That...and we don't need a separate application for pushing text: Substack showed us SMTP works just fine, and it's actually sustainable as a business when you also have paid-subscription newsletters.
Authors want to own their readership. This is much easier to do when you have an exportable e-mail list than having a Wordpress blog that's 'pull not push'

We got a very interesting SoP 2024 proposal focused on solving RSS+oAuth in a capture resistant way to allow podcasters to monetize and prevent Apple and Spotify from using monetization appeal to break RSS and avoiding Patreon/Substack too. It was a finalist. We ended up prioritizing other projects to fund, but with different funding priorities we might have funded this. Another capital+enclosure challenge. Cc @trent

Recommend this to any other parties interested in taking up or funding the cause.

* core protocol consigliere @ Ethereum Foundation
* funding core devs with @protocolguild (member)
* creating artifacts @ Stateful Works

We got a very interesting SoP 2024 proposal focused on solving RSS+oAuth in a capture resistant way to allow podcasters to monetize and prevent Apple and Spotify from using monetization appeal to break RSS and avoiding Patreon/Substack too. It was a finalist. We ended up prioritizing other projects to fund, but with different funding priorities we might have funded this. Another capital+enclosure challenge. Cc @trent

Recommend this to any other parties interested in taking up or funding the cause.

https://forum.summerofprotocols.com/t/pig-enhancing-rss-podcast-feeds-by-using-oauth-to-access-exclusive-content/883

Do Good, Do Well. We staked 100,000 ETH to empower public good projects and our community. Planning big things in /octant | discord.gg/octant | guild.xyz/octant

if it’s open source, could qualify for @octant funding