Draft: started 2026-04-10 • Tagged /atom , /rss My feeds are Atom feeds. Everyone with knowledge agrees that Atom is technically superior to RSS. Everything should have switched to it twenty years ago. All feed readers support Atom just fine ( except in podcasts , for no good reason). Unfortunately, many people continued to write and choose RSS, whether from ignorance of Atom (please stop calling feeds “RSS”!), or from figuring it doesn’t really matter in the end. Most of the differences are surface-level, or in practice not a problem: RSS uses a stupid date format? Doesn’t really affect people much. RSS doesn’t specify content encoding, so it’s ambiguous as to whether <description> is text or HTML? Used to be a problem, but these days everyone emits and assumes HTML. In fact, RSS 2.0 specs settled on it being HTML, though people often use the unreasonably-popular, wonkily-versioned, horribly-named content:encoded to mean that, even though that’s not what it was supposed to mean.…