Thursday September 11, 2025; 10:36 AM EDT
- Reading tea leaves about Dave's integration of FeedLand and Wordland. I think he is making FeedLand the RSS feed management / subscription engine for the social network platform that he is building, analogous to the Twitter back end, and Wordland will be the where one sees a timeline of all their feeds and writes responses. The responses will likely be published to Wordpress for storage. In effect Wordland will be analogous to the Twitter front end. FeedLand will be the place for one to find and subscribe to new feeds. Wordpress will be analogous to one's Twitter profile. If I am following this right then I would think that the RSS feed created by Wordland for its associated Wordpress site will need to be automatically added to the FeedLand feeds database to be available for others to subscribe, then if there is a Follow Me button on the Wordpress site (profile) you will redirect to the add feed page of Feedland. #
- If I am right then unless Dave adds a type of federation model to FeedLand there will need to be a central instance of FeedLand (feedland.social?) where everyone goes to find and subscribe to feeds., which requires centralized hosting that has always been the Achilles heal of Dave's work. FeedLand puts everything into the MySQL database that I am not sure scales well for this use case. #
- All of this is pure speculation on my part, but I see how RSS underpins all of this but I don't see how this will work in decentralized manner. Perhaps the timeline he is putting in to Wordland can pull from subscribed feeds on multiple FeedLand instances? This would make everything function similarly to Mastodon from a feed perspective. You could have a community built around one instance of FeedLand that might be more like the BBSes of old and that might be enough. #