My favorite social media channel, Bluesky, has a terrific new interim CEO and a business plan, but RSS creator and longtime blogger Dave Winer thinks they’d do better catching up to the web instead of reinventing it.
They can’t abandon the developers who made a bet on AT Proto, so they should give it to a standards body, work with them, but at the same time work on interop with products like WordPress and support inbound and outbound RSS. Markdown would be nice too. Get rid of the character limit and support links, styling, enclosures (for podcasting) and make their posts editable. In other words they have some catching up to do re the web. That’s where their leadership would be welcome instead of questioned. — Dave Winer
N.B. The link to Dave’s long-running website, Scripting News, works but the site does not use https://, so some browsers may incorrectly warn you that there’s a problem with the page. There isn’t one. Relax—and click on through to the other side.
