I wonder if it would make sense to have a bidirectional mapping between RSS and ActivityPub...
RSS is undead
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Re: RSS is undead
#102Does anyone have a good RSS feed reader for Firefox? I don't need to be able to read the actual feed in the reader, I just want a list that'll notify me when a blog I've subscribed to has a new post. "Feeder"[1] looks like exactly what I want, but the requested permissions list is insane. Are there any that don't request to "Access [my] data on all websites"? I've tried a bunch and they all seem to - I guess so they…
Feedbro is really good: https://nodetics.com/feedbro/
Not affiliated, just a user.
Re: RSS is undead
#103The Movim ( https://movim.eu/ ) social network is relying heavily on the XMPP Pubsub standard. All the articles published on the network are actually Atom elements ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_(Web_standard) ), it's then super easy to import and export Atom/RSS feeds in XMPP (for example https://nl.movim.eu/?feed/pubsub.movim.eu/Movim ). On top of that Pubsub brings you a fully real-time solution (no need to…
Only Android 5.0 and up :(
It's actually because older versions of Android doens't have a browser up to date enough to support Movim (see https://github.com/movim/movim_android/issues/1). Sorry about that.
You can still access Movim using any other browsers (Chrome, Firefox) on your phone and bookmark it on your launcher with a similar result :) The Android app is basically a wrapper around a WebView.
Re: RSS is undead
#104I never stopped using RSS but Firefox has made it a bit more difficult to find out if a site offers RSS...
Really? Haven't noticed, can you elaborate?
Re: RSS is undead
#105I'm a PhD student, and one of the things you quickly become aware of is the fire-hose of new science that is published daily. The discovery/prioritisation problem is being "solved" by publishers recommending other articles (published by them) on their website, or sites like ResearchGate (basically Facebook for academics and researchers) doing the same with similarly obscure algorithms. I started a side project that p…
When i was a PhD student, i early on set up alerts on Zetoc [1] for tables of contents on the top journals in my area. A couple of weeks later, i wasn't even reading all of the tables of contents, let alone the papers.
What might have worked is getting together with a few like-minded students and postdocs and doing it collectively; it would have lowered the individual workload, and created a social pressure to actually do it. It could be a sort of superficial version of a journal club. Machine learning is cool, but in life sciences, it's traditional to solve problems by throwing more postdocs at them.
You could perhaps do this with human effort, but mediated (and perhaps assisted) by machine. Imagine a tiny HN instance with a handful of users, where the new page is fed from RSS. Or, at a larger scale, Reddit, with subs for various disciplines, and some process for routing RSS items to the appropriate subs.
Re: RSS is undead
#106I'm a PhD student, and one of the things you quickly become aware of is the fire-hose of new science that is published daily. The discovery/prioritisation problem is being "solved" by publishers recommending other articles (published by them) on their website, or sites like ResearchGate (basically Facebook for academics and researchers) doing the same with similarly obscure algorithms. I started a side project that p…
For machine learning there is the Arxiv Sanity Preserver, which can recommend new papers based on your library.
It didn't really preserve my sanity, though. I'm reading those papers in my spare time, and it got me to read many more papers than I ever did before.
Re: RSS is undead
#107This whole "RSS died" narrative illustrates a basic problem with how we understand the internet. Since there's no unified unbiased sort of "index", like GDP, to tell us just what proportion of users on the internet uses RSS anymore, we're stuck having to rely on socially propogated ideas about the state. This leads to all the typical problems with socially defined truth, such as drift as a consequence of incentives (…
Did you just try to apply category theory to semiotics?
Re: RSS is undead
#108I would love to see the resurgence of RSS and other public protocol enabled start-ups and solutions. This is the time. RSS is also a prolific engine for curation, given how flexible and extendable the protocol is. The emergence of expert-run email digest frenzy should be built on foundation of RSS, where individuals can parse hundreds of sources and quickly construct a digest for easy circulation.
I can definitely see RSS taking off in the future more than ever.
We finally are getting to standard formats in the digital age. JSON obviously is the leader in storing object data. RSS would be great for making multi-platform content.
As a programmer and content creator, writing something 1 time and it working everywhere is the future.
Re: RSS is undead
#109Pretty funny to see an article like this! For a course that I followed I needed to create a paper about the Internet. I chose the topic of RSS and what has let to its so called "death". What I found is that people used RSS but where not aware of it. Then Facebook became big and that became a hugh source of news for many. Now with the exodus happening at Facebook it makes sense that RSS is becoming popular again. Stil…
>What I found is that people used RSS but where not aware of it.
Yep, I had no idea I was using it until I started a website years ago and saw RSS was everywhere.
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#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
Only Android 5.0 and up :(
It's actually because older versions of Android doens't have a browser up to date enough to support Movim (see https://github.com/movim/movim_android/issues/1 ). Sorry about that. You can still access Movim using any other browsers (Chrome, Firefox) on your phone and bookmark it on your launcher with a similar result :) The Android app is basically a wrapper around a WebView.
Cool, yeah, I'm "stuck" with my old, tiny smartphone but I'm quite reluctant to change it (I even refuse to call it an upgrade [shakes fist]). But it's really insecure and slow also... I have a similar problem with Firefox, no updates since 55.0.2.
But Movim looks really great, I should give it a go, thanks for the links!