Meeting at Google: “We haven’t fucked up the Web enough with our AMP shit, but the AI shit is doing pretty good work. What about if we also fuck up RSS?”
What an utterly shit company. I hope the AI hype destroys them.
@tamas @thomasfuchs it doesn’t but you can style your rss feed via xslt. I’ve never seen this in the wild though.
@thomasfuchs It really is amazing how allowing a monopoly on browsers(/engines) creates so much damage.
Love how they're hiding relevant and germane comments calling The Goog out on their poor stewardship and active efforts to strangle XSLT as "off-topic".
@thomasfuchs "This usage counter is <1%" ... where'd that number come from if you're just now adding a usage counter?
@EndlessMason If that refers to people on the Internet, there's ~6 billion Internet users (low estimate).
So 1% is 60 million people.
If it refers to websites, it's millions of websites as well.
thing is: there are people that use it and this will break their shit.
typically I'm all for "throw that code away if possible", but that type of reasoning in that github issue is anoying.
"just get those people to rewrite their stuff in JS, so we don't have to fix our shit!"
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@lukad @tamas @thomasfuchs This is how Vivaldi styles Thomas's mastodon feed (i.e. your @url .rss):
Not to jump to conclusions but Im willing to bet Vivaldi uses XLST to do this.
