A conversation between two friends about how cool it is that you can now chat with anyone who is on the rss.network, and of course everyone is because it's so easy and everyone wants it.

The protocol is pretty obvious, rssCloud, a websockets connection to the client, and someone to go first.

But you have to believe in no lock-in, just plain old really simple RSS 2.0. Let a thousand nodes bloom! ;-)

Update: Blog post about the next step.

Dave Winer, March 2026.