Dave Winer writes a longer blog post about inbound RSS. The idea is let’s have more systems able to both generate RSS feeds and read them in automatically. If you have that complete loop for posts, you don’t need much else to have a social platform.
Watts Martin @manton It seems like inbound RSS wouldn't work in situations where feed items need individual granularity in access control, e.g., “followers only”, right? I am noodling with an idea that would be a decentralized social platform of a sort, but it would need that capability, so I think I'm probably stuck with ActivityPub.
Manton Reece @chipotle Yes, followers-only is tricky on the public web. It’s not really straightforward with ActivityPub either, lots of weird side effects to consider.
Jason Becker @chipotle I’m convinced followers-only is only feasible entirely within a closed platform.
Manton Reece @jsonbecker @chipotle Yeah, if it’s not entirely closed, some private-ish conversations are probably going to leak out.