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Re: Ask HN: Is RSS making a real resurgence?

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Post by t3h2mas » Wed, Jan 24, 2018, 9:16 PM UTC

SyneRyder wrote: post #6

I feel I've noticed an upswing in RSS recently, but I'm not sure if that's because I'm looking for it. A lot of people I follow on Twitter (and myself) seemed to quit Twitter around November last year. Some of them went back to blogging instead, and some others went to micro.blog, both of which use RSS as the syndication method. Feedly also added keyword mute filters to their RSS readers late last year, which I think…

Thanks for sharing micro.blog. Recently I keep finding myself drawn to simple, content first social network alternatives. I hope RSS stays strong. I also hope scuttlebutt takes off, and gopher (protocol) makes a comeback.

Re: Ask HN: Is RSS making a real resurgence?

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Post by Something1234 » Wed, Jan 24, 2018, 10:26 PM UTC

Tomte wrote: post #14

Is there even a local RSS reader anymore (except Thunderbird and Emacs maybe)? All the readers I found when I was last looking were cloud-based.

Firefox has a built in reader of sorts. I forget the exact name but I think it's called live bookmarks or something. I never really used it, but I know it prompts me about it when I go to look at some rss url, because I'm trying to scrape it.

Re: Ask HN: Is RSS making a real resurgence?

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Post by mnzaki » Thu, Jan 25, 2018, 12:22 AM UTC

JamesLeonis wrote: post #17

frumiousirc wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Maybe if someone creates a more "social" RSS experience! A Feedly with Friends! (does this already exist?) NewsBlur resembles that description.

NewsBlur is my browser's home page. I was a refugee from Google Reader years ago. It supports many of the former's features, is open source, and a SaaS pro if you don't want to deal with self hosting. But man, that's just a handful of it's features.

And it has a social feature, "blurblogs" on which you share articles. It's quite great, just signed up :)

And it's open source!

Thanks for the tip frumiousirc!