{"id":22341,"date":"2026-07-18T10:46:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T09:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?p=22341"},"modified":"2026-07-18T10:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T09:48:09","slug":"rss-chat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/rss-chat\/","title":{"rendered":"rss chat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve been following the <a href=\"https:\/\/daytona.scripting.com\/search?q=rss.chat\">development of rss.chat<\/a> on Dave Winer&#8217;s Scripting.com for a while. Dave set up a limited example at chat.rss and now an open one at <a href=\"https:\/\/demo.rss.chat\">https:\/\/demo.rss.chat<\/a> which I <a href=\"https:\/\/demo.rss.chat\/?screenname=John\">joined<\/a>. There dosen&#8217;t seem to be a promise that this particular server will stay up, but it offers the chance to try and explore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>rss.chat is a social network:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/users.rss.network\/dave\/rss.xml\">Every user<\/a>&nbsp;has an RSS feed with all their posts.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/users.rss.network\/rss.xml\">whole community<\/a>&nbsp;has an RSS feed.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>There is an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/data.rss.network\/subs.opml\">OPML file<\/a>&nbsp;that lists all the users.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>You can subscribe to those feeds if you want.<\/p>\n<cite><a href=\"https:\/\/daveverse.org\/2026\/07\/10\/introducing-rss-chat\/\">Introducing rss.chat \u2013 daveverse<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>from the same page:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>I envision a world of small communities, running on small servers. We haven\u2019t released the code for this yet, but will, under an MIT license.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Which is interesting. I remember, when I started using <a href=\"https:\/\/micro.blog\">micro.blog<\/a>, one of my thoughts was that it was the perfect model for a small community with particular interests. At the time I was thinking of education. I love everything about micro.blog but I do not see many there with my interests in education. As I understand it, Dave has no intention in supporting all of micro.blog&#8217;s features. In fact I think he hopes that other people will used the spec and concept to create different things:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Don&#8217;t think of this as a product Rob. Think about features you want in other people&#8217;s products. Think of this as a source of feeds, not a destination for them.<\/p>\n<cite><a href=\"https:\/\/demo.rss.chat\/?id=108\">https:\/\/demo.rss.chat\/?id=108<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a very interesting way to think about a new piece of software. There are also some interesting ideas on the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/scripting\/rss.chat\/issues\">github issues<\/a> including mentions of webmentions and WordPress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>rss.chat by Dave Winer, where each user gets an RSS feed to share their posts. It seems to be about small communities on individual servers. While it&#8217;s still in demo mode and not guaranteed to stick around, it&#8217;s a thought provoking way to think about at social networking, feeds and the small\/IndieWeb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":["https:\/\/social.ds106.us\/@johnjohnston\/116940341933246241","https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/johnjohnston.info\/post\/3mqvyattxoq24"],"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[953],"tags":[543,48,2113],"post_format":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22341","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-posse","7":"tag-dave-winer","8":"tag-rss","9":"tag-rss-chat","10":"kind-article","12":"h-entry","13":"hentry"},"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p57zFQ-5Ol","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22341"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22343,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22341\/revisions\/22343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22341"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=22341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}