Interesting, I’d never heard of that ICE. Seems that it could be considered a very very early idea in line with ActivityPub, which I also don’t really know much about.

I think, as someone that has a RSS feed on my blog, that RSS is a total mess and Atom was probably the better choice.

Maybe even some modern JSON based format would be OK, but maybe that’s what ActivityPub is?

Anyway, after dealing with the mess of images and inline HTML with CDATA in RSS, I have complete fatigue of the whole endeavour.

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latexr 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

> Maybe even some modern JSON based format would be OK

That’s what JSON Feed is. It’s supported by several RSS readers.

https://www.jsonfeed.org

> but maybe that’s what ActivityPub is?

No, that’s for social networking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub

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masfuerte 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

RSS was so badly designed that early versions weren't actually valid XML. I never understood why anyone used it after Atom was created.

	▲	account42 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Because people care about publishing or getting updates, not about the thing delivering them being valid XML or not. RSS works. Atom splitting the standard into two probably did more harm than good. In the end it doesn't matter since every reader supports both and both do the job well.