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Suppose this was decentralised. I think the cost would greatly reduce and RSS could power a whole new web
Right now to subscribe to over 250 rss feeds (that update in realtime) there are services offering this for typically around $250/ month. Suppose this was decentralised. I think the cost would greatly reduce and RSS could power a whole new web
Would be awesome to show generation of feeds. It is possible to generate RSS feeds for any site.
RSS feeds are perfectly suitable for stuff like blogs, podcasts, webcomics, etc.pp. - not for platforms where a new item pops up every few seconds.
For podcasts people use a separate app like PodcastAddict or iTunes - for webcomics and blogs the author(s) usually also have twitter to announce a new item or an entirely separate platform like DeviantArt or WebToons.
So RSS is indeed not required to keep track of new submissions. I actually have a colleague who isn't using RSS feeds and instead keeps bookmarks and checks each page individually (given he only keeps track of maybe ~30 pages).
In conclusion - I think they don't see a value in RSS feeds because the existing options they're using already fulfill their needs.
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 tal…
Right now to subscribe to over 250 rss feeds (that update in realtime) there are services offering this for typically around $250/ month. Suppose this was decentralised. I think the cost would greatly reduce and RSS could power a whole new web
The hosted version is 15 bucks per year. https://miniflux.app/hosting
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…
Thank you for creating NewsBlur!!! I use it every day, some of my colleagues switched to it, hope to become more successful in future!
I think most people don't see the value in RSS feeds because they are used to the business of forums and social networks - where you don't need (or have the capability to) process _all_ the information. RSS feeds are perfectly suitable for stuff like blogs, podcasts, webcomics, etc.pp. - not for platforms where a new item pops up every few seconds. For podcasts people use a separate app like PodcastAddict or iTunes -…
I definitely agree; a noisy channel is bad for RSS.
> So RSS is indeed not required to keep track of new submissions.
Disagree hard here. I have a twitter account, but while it's not a waterhose, I would 100% miss new comic post announcements - assuming that an author's twitter account only announced new comics, and didn't just tweet other things.
Comics are the perfect use case for an RSS feed: they've mostly got a stable and slow publishing schedule, and not time-sensitive. I can ignore that folder in my reader for weeks, and then go back and catch up.
Doing that manually by clicking bookmarks seems like insanity to me, now.
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> 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!