It's time to head back to RSS?

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Post by kawera » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 4:15 AM UTC

It's time to head back to RSS?
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Re: It's time to head back to RSS?

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Post by kemenaran » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 4:51 AM UTC

I found RSS feeds to be the best remedy for my accelerated bit-sized dopamine-inducing news consumption.

RSS lets me focus on what I actually want to read, makes me take long-break (instead of short bursts of Twitter updates), and gives me longer and more structured content.

I also use RSS for sharing articles, by giving the URL of your Pocket RSS feed to friends.

I'm glad that, in the age of algorithmically curated timelines, RSS still exist!

Re: It's time to head back to RSS?

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Post by jingwen » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 4:55 AM UTC

If you miss the clean UI and keyboard shortcuts of Google Reader, I highly recommend BazQux Reader.

The front end tech is also pretty interesting: it's built with Ur/Web. [2]

[1] http://bazqux.com [2] https://github.com/bazqux/bazqux-urweb

Re: It's time to head back to RSS?

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Post by robobro » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 4:55 AM UTC

Hot take: we should revive ATOM instead.

RSS and ATOM are both nearly always machine generated and machine read so this may seem trivial to argue, but for those who are interesting in seeing the difference, this is a good article http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/Rss20AndAtom10Compared

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When I wrote a forum software a while back, it was trivial to not only add a feed for new threads but also for new comments (per thread and board-wide). Made it very easy to monitor updates on all my devices. Most wikis have RSS/ATOM feeds for recent changes which is a great power feature for admins.

Mastodon is atom-based, I believe. Early twitter supported RSS / ATOM feeds which arguably made it easier to follow hashtags or news accounts.

Another benefit of RSS/ATOM is that you can plug them into chatbots or use them to mirror content. I would love to see syndication come back to the spotlight!

Re: It's time to head back to RSS?

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Post by toasterlovin » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 4:59 AM UTC

If you haven’t tried RSS as your main mode of information consumption in a while, you should give it a shot. I went all-in on RSS recently and it’s been great. Way more thoughtful, long form content. Smaller dose information sources (Twitter, etc.) are useful in their own way, but I’ve found that the amount of time required to create a unit of media is a pretty good reverse indicator of how likely it is to use the baser emotions to acquire and keep my attention.

Re: It's time to head back to RSS?

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Post by tschellenbach » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 5:01 AM UTC

Version 2 of Winds (open source RSS/Podcast app) is coming out next month: https://github.com/getstream/winds

Re: It's time to head back to RSS?

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Post by nanodeath » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 5:01 AM UTC

jingwen wrote: post #3

If you miss the clean UI and keyboard shortcuts of Google Reader, I highly recommend BazQux Reader. The front end tech is also pretty interesting: it's built with Ur/Web. [2] [1] http://bazqux.com [2] https://github.com/bazqux/bazqux-urweb

The Old Reader[1] has been my go-to. Looks similar.

[1] https://theoldreader.com/

Re: It's time to head back to RSS?

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Post by avhon1 » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 5:05 AM UTC

robobro wrote: post #4

Hot take: we should revive ATOM instead. RSS and ATOM are both nearly always machine generated and machine read so this may seem trivial to argue, but for those who are interesting in seeing the difference, this is a good article http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/Rss20AndAtom10Compared -------- When I wrote a forum software a while back, it was trivial to not only add a feed for new threads but also for new commen…

That comparison article is great! Is there anything that also compares JSON Feed too? https://jsonfeed.org/

As far as Twitter goes, I use TwitRSS to generate RSS feeds from of a couple of users. https://twitrss.me/

Re: It's time to head back to RSS?

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Post by reificator » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 5:09 AM UTC

toasterlovin wrote: post #5

If you haven’t tried RSS as your main mode of information consumption in a while, you should give it a shot. I went all-in on RSS recently and it’s been great. Way more thoughtful, long form content. Smaller dose information sources (Twitter, etc.) are useful in their own way, but I’ve found that the amount of time required to create a unit of media is a pretty good reverse indicator of how likely it is to use the ba…

I've been using Feedly ever since Google Reader died, it's still the first place I look.

I do wish I could have an easier time getting YouTube playlists in there[1], but video is really the only sore spot there.

[1]: Playlists will now only give the top n videos in a playlist, so you basically have to follow a channel feed instead.

Re: It's time to head back to RSS?

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Post by adamnemecek » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 5:11 AM UTC

it's hard for rss to compete with say reddit