2026-07-14

Dave Winer introduces rss.chat

Good example of AI-assisted software being used to revive old-web interoperability ideas, with a strong small-tools, small-servers, open-formats counter-position to platform-centric social design.

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Logged at IST: 2026-07-14 09:44 IST

What it is: Dave Winer introducing rss.chat and arguing for RSS as a social-network substrate

Gist: Winer presents rss.chat as a small-community social system built from old web primitives: RSS 2.0, OPML, Markdown, SQL, WebSocket, and rssCloud. The pitch is that social publishing and reply structures do not need heavyweight new protocols if interoperable feeds, shared formats, and replaceable components are treated as the core product.

Newsletter angle: Good example of AI-assisted software being used to revive old-web interoperability ideas, with a strong small-tools, small-servers, open-formats counter-position to platform-centric social design.