RSS3 returns like lightning, redefining the Web 3.0 protocol for data distribution and ownership

TL;DR

• RSS3 is a next-generation data distribution protocol that combines blockchain technology and is derived from the RSS protocol. It is flexible, efficient, scalable, and decentralized.
• The RSS protocol is an open-source, concise, and free protocol developed by early developers to facilitate tracking website updates and capturing content.
• The use of RSS protocol to obtain information without visiting the source site has seriously affected the traffic acquisition of Web2 Internet giants; the feature that the content pushed by RSS protocol does not display source site advertisements has greatly affected the advertising revenue of Web2 Internet giants. Therefore, Web2 Internet giants abandoned the RSS protocol and built a closed social network based on their own traffic system and business model.
• Most Web1 underlying decentralized protocols are more difficult to form consensus than centralized closed products, and it is difficult to build ecosystems and products without consensus and incentive mechanisms. After the emergence of blockchain technology, a batch of Internet bottom-level decentralized protocols such as RSS will be expected to build economic models and business models.
• With the frequent occurrence of data leakage, privacy security, public opinion manipulation, algorithm abuse, profit extraction and data monopoly in the Web2 era, more and more attention has been paid. We are starting to miss the pure, concise, free and open Web1 Internet underlying protocol like the RSS protocol, which is the "original intention" of the Internet. RSS3 was born from this background and vision.
• Decentralized information flow can be roughly divided into four layers: Creation, Storage, Distribution and Rendering. RSS3 will focus on the decentralized distribution of information and provide corresponding storage solutions and display modules.
• The RSS3 protocol allows users to generate RSS3 files based on the Ethereum address, and associate their own social platforms such as Twitter and Instantly into the file. The file will synchronize the user's assets (digital assets and tweets, etc.) and behavior (transactions, likes, and forwards, etc.) on other platforms in real time, and store this information in the RSS3 decentralized network, and finally realize that user data belongs to users, and are "kidnapped" by the centralized platform.
• RSS3 ecological application developers can, with the permission of the user, filter and display different information according to the application characteristics, and can retrieve the content I publish on different platforms through different API interfaces. Finally, based on RSS3, application products such as decentralized Instagram, decentralized Twitter and decentralized WeChat will be built.
• RSS3 has an independent blockchain system, and the network is mainly composed of service node groups and global indexers. Among them, the service node group is composed of several service nodes, which are mainly responsible for the daily operation of the RSS3 network; the global indexer is composed of several relay nodes, which are mainly responsible for the security, governance and performance management of the RSS3 network.
• RSS3 ecological application and RSS3 network will provide us with a free and decentralized data creation, storage and distribution environment. Fundamentally solve the problems of data leakage, privacy security, public opinion manipulation, algorithm abuse, profit extraction and data monopoly caused by Internet giants in the Web2 era.
• We call an Internet without social public opinion manipulation, profit extraction and data monopoly Web 3.0; an information society that does not forget the original intention of the Internet and adapts to user needs is called the Web 3.0 era. RSS3 is an important puzzle piece to realize Web3.0, and it is an essential basic tool and protocol to help us step into the Web3.0 era.

1. RSS protocol, from prosperity to decline

About RSS3, let's start with the RSS protocol.

In the Web1 era, information is mainly generated and disseminated through portal websites, and users obtain information by visiting websites. In order to facilitate users to track website updates and capture content, early developers established an open source, concise, and free RSS protocol. The full name of the RSS protocol is "Really Simple Syndication", which means simple content aggregation. This protocol generally uses mailboxes as the sending object to provide website content distribution services. Users no longer need to log in to the website to view, and they can obtain information on website updates in a timely manner. When RSS detects that new information is generated on the website, it immediately records information such as title, author, content and data source in the RSS file in a specific language (XML markup language), and triggers content distribution at the same time. In this way, the mailbox users get the push of new information synchronously. So far, the RSS protocol has been iterated to version 2.0 and is still used by various websites. It is the well-known website subscription function.

Because it meets the needs of users, the RSS protocol has been highly sought after and widely used, and readers based on the RSS protocol are also scattered everywhere. Because in the Web2 era controlled by centralized Internet giants, RSS can obtain information without accessing the source site, and the data is timely and efficient to read. Such a convenient use experience has seriously affected the traffic acquisition of Web2 Internet giants. The feature that RSS content does not display source site advertisements caters to the user's preferences and also greatly hits the advertising revenue of Web2 giants. With the development of the Internet gradually becoming centralized and commercialized, Internet giants have established an internal closed content distribution and relationship network, and carried out business activities based on this. They call it Social Graph, which is the WeChat and Facebook we use. and Twitter and other network-based information dissemination tools. In addition, the difficulty of reaching a consensus on a decentralized open protocol is higher than that on a centralized closed product, and before blockchain technology is widely used, there is no good incentive mechanism to help decentralized protocols build ecosystems and products. So far, the RSS protocol has moved to the edge in the Web2 era under the control of Internet giants.

However, with the frequent occurrence of data leakage, privacy security, public opinion manipulation, algorithm abuse, profit extraction and data monopoly in the Web2 era, more and more attention has been paid. We are starting to miss the pure, concise, free and open Web1 Internet underlying protocol like the RSS protocol, which is the "original intention" of the Internet. Based on this background and vision, RSS3 was born quietly.

2. RSS3, come back like lightning

RSS3 integrates blockchain technology and RSS protocol, aiming to build a flexible, efficient and scalable decentralized information distribution protocol.

Similar to most Web1 underlying protocols, the RSS protocol lacks an incentive mechanism, making it difficult to build a business model or economic ecology. The emergence of blockchain and digital currency just makes up for the incentive problem of the underlying protocol of Web1, allowing the underlying protocol to motivate contributors to the underlying decentralized network resources on the basis of open source and open source, reward ecological developers, and finally integrate the network, products, The interests of users, developers, network maintainers and network resource contributors are bound together, and they work together to help each other.

Decentralized data flow can be roughly divided into four layers: Creation, Storage, Distribution and Rendering. RSS3 mainly focuses on the decentralized distribution of data and provides corresponding storage solutions and display modules.

When users use the RSS3 ecological application (we can try it through https://rss3.co/ ), the application will help users create an RSS3 file (RSS3 File) in the RSS3 decentralized network. This file is established by the Ethereum address. Users can add the public keys of multiple decentralized networks or the accounts of the centralized system into the RSS3 file, and establish friend relationships in RSS3 to build their own content push aggregation portal and social graph .

As you can see in the image below, in my RSS3 file, you can see that I added the Ethereum address, Twitter, and instant to my RSS3 folder. My friends in the RSS3 ecosystem can get timely pushes of my related content when using the RSS3 ecosystem application.

For application developers, application developers can filter and display different information according to application characteristics, and can call the content I publish on different platforms through different API interfaces. Developers can build applications such as decentralized Instagram, decentralized Twitter and decentralized WeChat based on RSS3.

3. RSS3 Network Architecture and Vision

RSS3 will build a blockchain network and operate as a DAO. The network is mainly composed of Serving Node and Relay Node, among which:

• Service nodes, several service nodes will randomly form a service node group (Subgroup), which is mainly responsible for storing, managing, and synchronizing users' RSS3 files (RSS3 File), and processing the content push work in the network. Equivalent to the basic unit of work of the RSS3 network.
• Relay nodes, several relay nodes and storage and archive modules in the network form Global Indexers (GIs), which are mainly responsible for managing service node groups, routing data requests for RSS3 ecological applications, and maintaining network performance. Equivalent to the governance and performance management unit of the RSS3 network.

Global indexer (GIs) and service node group (Subgroup) will be elected by the network, global indexer (GIs) and service node group (Subgroup) election, the upper limit of the number of network nodes, node evil punishment, node incentive mechanism, network module upgrade And things like network treasury management will be voted on by RSS3 token holders. For more design and technical details, please refer to the RSS3 whitepaper: https://rss3.io/#/whitepaper

In the RSS3 ecosystem, the user's content push and RSS3 files will be saved and managed by a dynamic and random service node group, and there will be no single node dependency. When the RSS3 network is sufficiently decentralized, the user's data will ultimately belong to the user, and the user does not have to worry about the loss of content and social graph caused by the ban of centralized social software such as Twitter and Instant. Applications built on the RSS3 ecosystem cannot control users’ data. Users can smoothly and frictionlessly transfer from decentralized Twitter to decentralized Facebook without losing social data and social relationships, so as not to be compromised by social platforms.” kidnapping".

Ultimately, the RSS3 ecological application and RSS3 network will provide us with a free and decentralized data creation, storage and distribution environment. Fundamentally solve the problems of data leakage, privacy security, public opinion manipulation, algorithm abuse, profit extraction and data monopoly caused by Internet giants in the Web2 era. We call this ideal Web 3.0, a product that returns data ownership to users; an Internet without social public opinion manipulation, profit extraction and data monopoly; an information society that does not forget the original intention of the Internet and meets user needs. RSS3 is an important piece of the puzzle to realize this ideal, and it is an essential basic tool and protocol to help us step into the Web3.0 era.