There’s been a flurry of recent articles about RSS and ActivityPub:

• The Rise and Demise of RSS traces some interesting RSS prehistory that I wasn’t aware of. It also covers the great RSS 0.9x/1.0 schism.

• In Oh God Not This Again, Brent Simmons reminds us that RSS is plumbing; widespread adoption of RSS readers isn’t necessary to make RSS “successful”.

• What is ActivityPub, and how will it change the Internet? makes several breathless claims about the W3C ActivityPub standard; interesting discussion follows.

• The author of this ActivityPub hot take doesn’t think highly of ActivityPub; further interesting discussion ensues.