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Show HN: You Need Feeds – Introduce friends/family/workmates to RSS and webfeeds

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Re: Show HN: You Need Feeds – Introduce friends/family/workmates to RSS and webfeeds

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Post by panic »

conesus wrote: post #4

Hey, this is a great contribution. Thank you for making it. I run one of the more popular readers and I have to ask why wasn't NewsBlur included in your list. It's the oldest on that list for one. It's also got its own native client on all of the platforms. Plus, I'm a HNer and NewsBlur launched on HN as well. As somebody who has been introducing people, in person, to the concept of RSS for exactly a decade now, I'll…

> 95% of the people who leave RSS, and I ask everybody who cancels why they're canceling, leave it because they get their news from social media. Social filtering provides a higher signal than the manual process. I don't blame them.

I wonder if it would make sense for RSS readers to include ActivityPub support (or vice versa). Obviously most people's friends aren't on Mastodon or whatever, but it would be cool to see the social feed alongside RSS updates.

Re: Show HN: You Need Feeds – Introduce friends/family/workmates to RSS and webfeeds

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Post by boastful_inaba »

dewey wrote: post #7

This is great, a lot of people don’t know RSS exists but would be technical enough to use them if pointed in the right direction. Somewhat related, I built a small tool to scrape sites with no feeds and generate one: https://feedbridge.notmyhostna.me/

Huh, interesting! How do you think your site compares to say, Feed43?

Re: Show HN: You Need Feeds – Introduce friends/family/workmates to RSS and webfeeds

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Post by dewey »

boastful_inaba wrote: post #13
dewey wrote: post #7

This is great, a lot of people don’t know RSS exists but would be technical enough to use them if pointed in the right direction. Somewhat related, I built a small tool to scrape sites with no feeds and generate one: https://feedbridge.notmyhostna.me/

Huh, interesting! How do you think your site compares to say, Feed43?

Haven’t heard of them before, I know there are some tools to generate feeds by selecting elements on the page and then the tool figures everything. One of the tools I tried didn’t work for the site I needed it for and so I just wrote it myself, mostly for fun.

Re: Show HN: You Need Feeds – Introduce friends/family/workmates to RSS and webfeeds

#16

Post by rapnie »

This is a great initiative. Feeds need to be promoted with the wider public, or they will gradually and silently disappear.

Really like your starter packs.

> Are you sick of big websites trying to decide what you should see, despite what you’ve subscribed to? Sick of "the algorithm" shuffling what order you get told of things, if at all?

Most people nowadays consume news from social media (Facebook), and are not truly aware of the issues that arise from this (filter bubble, echo chamber, targeting, etc.). This could be explained better on the front page, or even have a sub-page with more detail and examples. Increase the incentive to use feeds.

Lastly, you present yourself as a not-for-profit initiative. But your About and whole site does not mention who you are. Be transparent.

If non-profit, you could be open-source as well. Have a crowdsourced place where people submit and improve starter packs.

(If I have overlooked something, then I stand corrected)

Edit: I just shared your link, on LI, and you seem to lack an open graph image (og:image) to be added to the link preview.

Re: Show HN: You Need Feeds – Introduce friends/family/workmates to RSS and webfeeds

#17

Post by torvald »

I use RSS feeds quite extensively, but as others have mentioned, its noisy and not every site lets you filter on categories and search terms. So I have my own little python script which fetches, regex filters and pushes to my phone. https://torvald.no/rss-regex-reader

Re: Show HN: You Need Feeds – Introduce friends/family/workmates to RSS and webfeeds

#18

Post by boastful_inaba »

conesus wrote: post #4

Hey, this is a great contribution. Thank you for making it. I run one of the more popular readers and I have to ask why wasn't NewsBlur included in your list. It's the oldest on that list for one. It's also got its own native client on all of the platforms. Plus, I'm a HNer and NewsBlur launched on HN as well. As somebody who has been introducing people, in person, to the concept of RSS for exactly a decade now, I'll…

Thanks!

Ah, I did send you an email on the 5th of this month, asking for a logo, screenshot and preferred description. (As for why I skipped you in the end - I might have had issues importing my OPML to get a good comparative screenshot for Newsblur? I can't quite remember, it was late at night a few weeks ago.) Happy to add you though!

That's a good idea - I should alter the front page copy under the pictures to talk about that.

Re: Show HN: You Need Feeds – Introduce friends/family/workmates to RSS and webfeeds

#19

Post by boastful_inaba »

panic wrote: post #12
conesus wrote: post #4

Hey, this is a great contribution. Thank you for making it. I run one of the more popular readers and I have to ask why wasn't NewsBlur included in your list. It's the oldest on that list for one. It's also got its own native client on all of the platforms. Plus, I'm a HNer and NewsBlur launched on HN as well. As somebody who has been introducing people, in person, to the concept of RSS for exactly a decade now, I'll…

> 95% of the people who leave RSS, and I ask everybody who cancels why they're canceling, leave it because they get their news from social media. Social filtering provides a higher signal than the manual process. I don't blame them. I wonder if it would make sense for RSS readers to include ActivityPub support (or vice versa). Obviously most people's friends aren't on Mastodon or whatever, but it would be cool to see…

Mastodon supports ATOM natively actually. I'm subscribed to one guy's feed that way right now!

Re: Show HN: You Need Feeds – Introduce friends/family/workmates to RSS and webfeeds

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Post by [deleted] »

rapnie wrote: post #16

This is a great initiative. Feeds need to be promoted with the wider public, or they will gradually and silently disappear. Really like your starter packs. > Are you sick of big websites trying to decide what you should see, despite what you’ve subscribed to? Sick of "the algorithm" shuffling what order you get told of things, if at all? Most people nowadays consume news from social media (Facebook), and are not trul…

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