RSS feeds were the single most useful feature of reddit that made it succeed with technology people long enough to bridge into the mainstream. Being able to turn basically any page on reddit into an rss feed simply by adding /.rss to the URL was genuinely the smartest thing they ever did. It was definitely a feature that came from the brains of people who are no longer there.
There’s no way that man would’ve stayed a liberal or libertarian or whatever he thought he was back then. He would’ve followed a left wing political development path.
RSS feeds were the single most useful feature of reddit that made it succeed with technology people long enough to bridge into the mainstream. Being able to turn basically any page on reddit into an rss feed simply by adding /.rss to the URL was genuinely the smartest thing they ever did. It was definitely a feature that came from the brains of people who are no longer there.
Probably Aaron Swartz.
(Rest in peace)
There’s no way that man would’ve stayed a liberal or libertarian or whatever he thought he was back then. He would’ve followed a left wing political development path.
rip aaron you would have loved posting with us throughout the hexbear domain incident /gen