At this point, developers have named so many projects "Atom" that there are officially more Atoms in the world than there are atoms in the universe.
Now why a spec from 2005 is in the front page of hacker news, I have no idea...
The hyperscalers stopped that timeline from winning, though.
YouTube had atom feeds and I don't think Amazon and Microsoft have relevant syndication.
Meta is surely responsible but that's it, imo.
They dumped microformats and standards in favor of soupy error tolerant formats that benefitted their search engine and made it harder for other efforts to make information shareable and accessible.
They wanted it to be easy to get information in, but for you to have to go through them to get information out.
I'm not sure they killed microformats, they still support hReview, hProduct etc, don't they?
And they pushed schema.org. I wrote a trivial recipe importing tool that just works™ on a bunch of website because it uses the JSON-LD Recipe schema. It's ~100 lines and a ton simpler than what I had to write 15 years ago.
Sure, they pushed for HTML5-style stuff, but that's not much of killing things.
IMO it's not google that stopped microformats: it's that website owners realized most of the time it was advantaging third parties for no advantage to them.
<feed xmlns:yt="http://www.youtube.com/xml/schemas/2015" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
If you want all the commits from a repo you can do something like: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/commits/main/.atom
And if you now only is interested in the num module you can do: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/commits/main/library/std/s...