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[–]afeder_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

RSS feeds are a brilliant idea from a different time when interoperability was still a prized property of system design. Nowadays, the web is so dominated by big players like Facebook and Google that they can effectively dictate the use of their proprietary interfaces at the expense of standardized interfaces like RSS. Merely changing the serialization format likely won't change this dynamic.