This subreddit seems to have the highest concentration of RSS Reader creators on earth, so I am writing this here: Is any of you interested in extending the RSS ecosystem to give it the same capabilities as Reddit/X/Facebook/Tiktok/Instagram, with the dream of eventually replacing them? I am seeing it mostly from the client (RSS Reader) perspective, but it would be interesting to have the perspective of RSS producers (CMS, forums..) as well. I have three particular features in mind to start with: Showing comments under a post. In many ways, rss.chat has everything we need, but there are hardly any (no?) sites out there supporting it yet. We’d agree on some conventions for how to render them, whether to use Markdown or HTML as the primary format, and define which Markdown/HTML features we support… so that comments look great on any reader. Card-based feeds that have a UI like TikTok and Instagram. RSS feeds can have all the content you need for this, but readers need some hint that the feed is rendered card-style, and maybe conventions to support existing RSS readers that do not support this yet. For showing multiple images like on Instagram, the MediaRSS extension already allows having multiple images. JSON Feed supports it out of the box. But AFAIK no RSS reader does (if you want to test yours, I have set up test feeds at https://test-rss.downread.com/enclosures.rss.xml and https://test-rss.downread.com/enclosures.json). There is also an existing extension for RSS to stream HLE videos, which would allow TikTok-like video feeds. Supporting user profiles for feeds. The new Socialspec.org has almost everything needed for this. It currently provides ‘about’ texts, contact data, and a blog roll. You can play around with it on sodir.org. This is not only the missing link from a pure text-based feed to a social-media-like profile. More importantly, it establishes DNS domains as identity - you only need a domain name with an HTTP server, and you have an online identity that no one can take from you. I am going to start with these three features for my own RSS reader (downread.com), but would prefer to collaborate with authors of other RSS readers or CMS systems to create something like a standard and give it a real chance to find actual users. Anyone here interested in adding one or more in their software? My end goal is a simple, open, fully distributed system that lets users not only read but also write comments and posts in their RSS readers. So they become the new social media clients in The Big Undo(.org).   submitted by   /u/Odd-Anteater875   to   r/rss [link]   [comments]