RSS Still Beats Facebook and Twitter for Tracking News
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RSS Still Beats Facebook and Twitter for Tracking News
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Re: RSS Still Beats Facebook and Twitter for Tracking News
#2I was okay with social-curated news when my social feeds were chronological, but now that everyone's doing algorithms, you miss way too much if you aren't looking at something like RSS.
Personally, I use TinyTinyRSS on Sandstorm.io. There's a fantastic TTRSS client available for Windows UWP that works on Windows Mobile too.
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#3And this is why I run datente.com
And why I use RSS to drive a channel on Telegram
Agree with the item or not, whatever pops up next is next from wherever you've subscribed
It's great
Re: RSS Still Beats Facebook and Twitter for Tracking News
#4At least you can sorT RSS feeds in a chronological order. I don't care what the algorithm believe, I just want to see the news in the order they came out.
Re: RSS Still Beats Facebook and Twitter for Tracking News
#5Indeed. But Facebook and Twitter beat RSS for tracking users.
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> Perhaps most importantly, you don’t need to be constantly online and constantly refreshing your feeds to make sure you don’t miss anything.
That's misleading. If you are using a desktop client then you might miss items from a very active feed if it didn't connect to the web recently enough.
That was (to me) the biggest selling point of Google Reader: I could forget about if for two weeks but Google would happily and regularly download feeds while I was not connected. Feeddemon and others couldn't do that unless they connected to proxy-like services.
Of course that has some implications regarding privacy.
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#6Yep, I have to agree. It's decentralised, pub sub, no tracking, can use any client you want! Somehow the simplicity is just elegant.
The idea of a massive corp controlling what I see (and hence how I think) does not resonate with me.
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#7Twitter is where I follow a specific event.
Facebook is where I stumble across bullshit.
RSS is where I read news, stories, and technical updates.
RSS is how I come here~
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#8I use feedbin, and I love it. At this point I tend to stop visiting sites that don't support RSS.
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#9Most of the sources of hard news have RSS feeds. Reuters. The BBC. The New York Times. The Hill. National Weather Service. These are all crap-free. No ads. No "10 ways to waste your time and money". Just news.
I have an Model 14 Teletype tape printer from 1926 in a brass and glass case hooked up to the Reuters RSS feed. I've had this at steampunk conventions, and it usually lives in my living room. Push a button and get the news.[1] Or leave it on, and it starts up whenever Reuters posts something new. Technical details.[2]
[1] https://archive.org/details/Aethericmachine14 [2] http://www.aetherltd.com
Re: RSS Still Beats Facebook and Twitter for Tracking News
#10At least you can sorT RSS feeds in a chronological order. I don't care what the algorithm believe, I just want to see the news in the order they came out.
Have to give it to FB, they do have that option.