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Facebook's Instant Articles does NOT help the Open Web

Nor the #Indieweb which is the term that I prefer.

I enjoy reading Dave Winer's blog posts that are related to blogging and other technology. I don't have to agree with him all the time.

Two recent DW posts:

I think that Instant Articles only works when viewing Facebook on the phone.

I tested this last spring when Facebook made the initial announcement, and NatGeo had their bee article in IA format. I think that was the reason why I installed the Facebook app on my phone. I have since deleted the app.

Facebook's Instant Articles feature does not work when viewing Facebook with a web browser on a desktop/laptop. And IA does not work when using a mobile web browser.

IA only works when using a mobile app on a phone. I'm unsure about a tablet.

A native app is not the open web.

The web and the internet are not the same. The internet is the network, and the web is one of the many "programs" or protocols that use the internet.

The internet is the highway. The web is one of the automobiles, riding on the highway.

A native app uses the internet. The web uses the internet.

My May 2015 post about IA:

http://jothut.com/cgi-bin/junco.pl/blogpost/54151/18May2015/Facebook-Instant-Articles-May-2015

Instant Articles is only a mobile app.

More Instant Articles :

When viewing those IA links within a desktop/laptop web browser or a phone web browser, the info gets displayed like a normal article post. Nothing special happens. When clicked, I'm taken to the publisher's website.

An internet-based native mobile app is required to view Instant Articles. This is not the open web.

I read DW's site by not going to his site. I read his content here, within JotHut by consuming DW's "normal" RSS feed.

http://jothut.com/cgi-bin/junco.pl/blogpost/863/Dave-Winer-Scriptingcom

JotHut offers the feed command to embed the content of RSS feeds within the site. (No space between the first and second opening curly brace.)

{ {feed=http://scripting.com/rss.xml desc}}

The "desc" attribute is optional. Without it, only the titles are displayed.

Some publishers, like DW, put the entire content of their articles in their RSS feeds. Some include only an opening snippet, like the Toledo Blade local news feed, which is embedded here with { {feed=http://www.toledoblade.com/rss/local desc}}

http://jothut.com/cgi-bin/junco.pl/blogpost/292/Toledo-Blade-local-news-feed

DW's Facebook-flavored Instant Articles feed is:
http://scripting.com/fb/rss.xml

When I use DW's FB IA RSS feed here at JotHut, only the titles are displayed, even when I included the 'desc' attribute.

DW said:

Summary: Facebook is using open web technology to power Instant Articles.

RSS is the open web, but Instant Articles is not. Maybe we are both right.

Is Instant Articles using Facebook-flavored RSS feed?

DW now has two RSS feeds for his blog posts. Here is the feed that I use here to read his posts:
http://scripting.com/rss.xml

Comparing the two RSS feeds, the <title> tag is the same. But the article text is d

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