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I don't use social media except a single, oft-neglected Mastodon account and get all my info from RSS. According to Newsblur I have ~500 feeds subscribed and ~5000 unread items (can't keep up) every week.
I don't doubt that RSS is getting less popular, but perhaps due to moving in circles where RSS is popular I really don't feel like it's dying.
I am certainly interested in trying to improve this. There has to be a less privacy invading and engagement promoting system that can work and compete with the mess that is the big silicon valley sites.
For info: As many websites are built by clever people and/or based on somewhat ready-made frameworks, when you DON'T see the RSS/Atom icons appear -> take a look at the source of the website and search (ctrl-f) for the word "rss" or "atom" or "xml" -> you might end up finding a surviving RSS link in there.
From posts like this, it seems like RSS still has a hardcore group of fans but it is not something everyday users ever found that useful.
I love and miss RSS as much as the next hacker, but it's weird to see an increasing trend of technological nostalgia starting to emerge. To be clear, I also think the web has gone wrong and miss coherent and useful web search, exploring interesting user created content (people have mentioned the return of web rings) and curating my own news feed via RSS. But it's strange to me that when I started everything was about…
I also like mechanical calculators, horse drawn plows, and fine tinsmithing all for the skills and craftsmanship that go into each. And yet I wouldn’t think to start campaigning to bring back animal powered plowing. The new generation of technologists and programmers entering the workforce doesn’t give a damn about your ugly RSS feeds or your plain text productivity workflow or your finely tuned EMacs config and I think that mindset shift is going to be irksome to a lot of established old heads.
Most people don’t use RSS because most people don’t prefer to consume the web that way nor that sort of content. They are scrolling social media and aggregators, not pruning their long form content subscriptions. Even in the heyday of RSS how many of us just had an overgrown 10000+ unread RSS reader that we simply stopped using? Promoting RSS seems backwards to me because that ship has sailed. Like promoting IRC when…
Most people don’t use RSS because most people don’t prefer to consume the web that way nor that sort of content. They are scrolling social media and aggregators, not pruning their long form content subscriptions. Even in the heyday of RSS how many of us just had an overgrown 10000+ unread RSS reader that we simply stopped using? Promoting RSS seems backwards to me because that ship has sailed. Like promoting IRC when…
Most people don’t use RSS because most people don’t prefer to consume the web that way nor that sort of content. They are scrolling social media and aggregators, not pruning their long form content subscriptions. Even in the heyday of RSS how many of us just had an overgrown 10000+ unread RSS reader that we simply stopped using? Promoting RSS seems backwards to me because that ship has sailed. Like promoting IRC when…
Most people don’t use RSS because most people don’t prefer to consume the web that way nor that sort of content. They are scrolling social media and aggregators, not pruning their long form content subscriptions. Even in the heyday of RSS how many of us just had an overgrown 10000+ unread RSS reader that we simply stopped using? Promoting RSS seems backwards to me because that ship has sailed. Like promoting IRC when…
Agreed. The world is moving past static text content as a medium, which is what RSS/IRC are built for. I want more rich video/media oriented content like what the New York Times is producing, which takes advantage of user interactivity and new Javascript APIs. RSS isn't going to make that happen for me.