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Comment by rippeltippel

8 hours ago

At this point, developers have named so many projects "Atom" that there are officially more Atoms in the world than there are atoms in the universe.

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echelon  8 hours ago

This one is (was) pretty important.

The hyperscalers stopped that timeline from winning, though.

  • riffraff  6 hours ago

    How is this the hyperscalers fault?

    YouTube had atom feeds and I don't think Amazon and Microsoft have relevant syndication.

    Meta is surely responsible but that's it, imo.

    • erk__  5 hours ago

      YouTube still does

          <feed xmlns:yt="http://www.youtube.com/xml/schemas/2015" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">

      I don't think they are linked to anywhere but the url is http://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=<channel_id>

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    • echelon  6 hours ago

      Google on several occasions took moves to make the web less semantic.

      They dumped microformats and standards in favor of soupy error tolerant formats that benefitted their search engine and made it harder for other efforts to make information shareable and accessible.

      They wanted it to be easy to get information in, but for you to have to go through them to get information out.