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TL; DR

lRSS3 is a next-generation data distribution protocol that combines blockchain technology and is derived from the RSS protocol. It has the characteristics of flexibility, efficiency, scalability and decentralization.

The lRSS protocol is an open source, concise, and free protocol developed by early developers for the convenience of tracking website updates and capturing content.

The use experience of the RSS protocol to obtain information without visiting the source site has seriously affected the traffic acquisition of Web2 Internet giants; the feature of RSS protocol push content that does not display source site advertisements has greatly hit the advertising revenue of Web2 Internet giants. Therefore, Web2 Internet giants put aside the RSS protocol and built a closed social network based on its own traffic system and business model.

Most of the underlying decentralized protocols of Web1 are more difficult to form a consensus than centralized closed products. Without consensus and incentive mechanisms, it is difficult to build ecology and products. After the emergence of blockchain technology, a batch of decentralized protocols at the bottom of the Internet, such as RSS, are 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 drawn. We began to miss the pure, concise, free and open Web1 Internet underlying protocol like the RSS protocol, which is the "initial heart" of the Internet. RSS3 was born based on 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 lRSS3 protocol allows users to generate RSS3 files based on the Ethereum address, and associate their Twitter, instant and other social platforms into the file. The file will synchronize the user's assets (digital assets and tweets, etc.) and behaviors (transactions, likes, forwarding, etc.) users, and were "kidnapped" by the centralized platform.

lRSS3 ecological application developers can filter and display different information according to application characteristics with the user's permission, and can call the content I publish on different platforms through different API interfaces. Finally, based on RSS3, applications such as decentralized Instagram, decentralized Twitter, and decentralized WeChat will be built.

lRSS3 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 and is mainly responsible for the daily operation of the RSS3 network; the global indexer is composed of several relay nodes and is mainly responsible for the security, governance and performance management of the RSS3 network.

lRSS3 ecological application and RSS3 network will provide us with a free 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.

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1. The RSS protocol, from prosperity to decline

Regarding RSS3, we must start with the RSS protocol.

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(RSS file example, image source Berkman Klein Center, Harvard University)

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 all over the world. Because in the Web2 era controlled by centralized Internet giants, RSS can obtain information without visiting the source site, and the data is timely and the reading efficiency is high. Such a convenient use experience has seriously affected the traffic acquisition of Web2 Internet giants. The fact that RSS content does not display source station advertisements greatly caters to user preferences and also greatly reduces the advertising revenue of Web2 giants. As the development of the Internet gradually tends to be centralized and commercialized, the Internet giants have established internal closed content distribution and relationship networks, and carried out business activities based on this. They call it Social Graph, which is what we use WeChat, Facebook and Twitter and other information dissemination tools based on relationship networks. In addition, it is more difficult to reach consensus in decentralized open protocols than in centralized closed products. In addition, before blockchain technology is widely used, there is no good incentive mechanism to help decentralized protocols build ecology and products. So far, the RSS protocol has moved to the edge in the Web2 era under the control of Internet giants.

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2. RSS3 returns like lightning

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

Similar to most of the underlying protocols of Web1, 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 has just made up for the incentive problem of the underlying protocol of Web1, allowing the underlying protocol to encourage the contributors of the underlying decentralized network resources on the basis of open source and openness, reward ecological developers, and ultimately 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 RSS3 ecological applications (we can passhttps://rss3.co/Try), the app will help users create an RSS3 file (RSS3 File) in the RSS3 decentralized network. The file is set up 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, establish friend relationships in RSS3, and build their own content push aggregation portal and social graph. .

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

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3. RSS3 Network Architecture and Vision

RSS3 will build a blockchain network and run it in the form of DAO. The network is mainly composed of Serving Node and Relay Node, among which:

l 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 pushing content within the processing network. Equivalent to the basic unit of work of the RSS3 network.

l Relay nodes, several relay nodes and storage and archiving modules in the network form a global indexer (GIs), which is 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 Indexers (GIs) and Service Node Groups (Subgroup) will be elected by the network, Global Indexers (GIs) and Service Node Group (Subgroup) elections, upper limit of network nodes, penalties for malicious behavior of nodes, node incentive mechanism, and network module upgrades Things like governance and network treasury management will be voted on by RSS3 token holders. For more design and technical details, please refer to the RSS3 white paper:https://rss3.io/#/whitepaper

In the RSS3 ecosystem, user content pushes and RSS3 files will be saved and managed by a dynamic and random service node group, and there will be no dependence on a single node. 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 graphs caused by the banning of centralized social software such as Twitter and instant. Applications built on the RSS3 ecology cannot control user data, and users can smoothly and frictionlessly transfer from decentralized Twitter to decentralized Facebook without losing social data and social relationships, so as not to be "infested" by social platforms. Kidnapped".

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 Web3.0, a product that returns data ownership to users; an Internet without social media 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 puzzle to realize this ideal, and it is an essential basic tool and protocol to help us enter the Web3.0 era.