RSS (Rich Site Syndicate) was an open protocol for social networking in the mid-2000s that competed with proprietary social networks, but lost because Web 2 companies built proprietary alternatives that users preferred, demonstrating the competitive power of centralized platforms over open protocols.
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“there were things like RSS which is a open protocol for doing social networking which in the mid-2000s seemed like a credible competitor to some of the proprietary social networks of course that lost”
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