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Unadorned Gemtext instead of syndication formats

easeout at tilde.team easeout at tilde.team

Thu Sep 10 01:04:58 BST 2020

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On Wed, Sep 09, 2020 at 07:54:12PM -0400, easeout at tilde.team wrote:

I'm suggesting only a bare bones, dead simple, worse-is-better,
get-what-you-can-with-what's-on-hand version of syndication. I would
just collect all links on the page and not devise an intelligent way to
filter them, as if we were scraping web pages for only the good stuff. I
agree that would lead to divergent behavior among clients.

In hindsight I think I was unclear, so let me try to restate:

I would just collect every link on the page. I would not devise anintelligent way to filter them. That would be like scraping web pageswith guesses and approximations, which we don't need to do. I would notwant clients to compete on differentiated Gemtext-subscribing behaviorwhen RSS / Atom are the right answer for an upgrade path.