RSS Is Better Than Twitter

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Post by k1m » Sat, Mar 30, 2019, 2:08 PM UTC

Re: RSS Is Better Than Twitter

#2

Post by hprotagonist » Sat, Mar 30, 2019, 2:27 PM UTC

Considering how i read HN and thus how i’m reading this — and that i don’t have a twitter account — i guess i have to agree!

RSS is very, very nice. Especially for keeping track of all the journals I have to keep an eye on.

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#3

Post by knight17 » Sat, Mar 30, 2019, 2:35 PM UTC

I just wish Mozilla introduce subscribing to RSS as a first class feature in Firefox. If they can introduce and integrate Pocket, I think an open technology like RSS deserves a fair chance. But they'd need to invest a little bit to make it easy to subscribe—similar to following on Twitter/Instagram or Liking pages on Facebook—to receive site updates. Having to find and enter byzantine URLs is not the way to go although personally, I do not have any trouble doing that as I have been using RSS and feed readers for more than a decade, but that is not the case for everyone.

I just wish some consortium of like minded companies like NYT/WaPo/Guardian/BBCs/Other national dailies, Reddit, Mozilla, and even Microsoft can huddle together and come up with a new name/identity and spread it and popularise it. One can always wish.

As one commentator said in the linked article: protocols are better than platforms.

Edit: The issue here is not about obtaining the feature with add-ons and extensions, which there are many. When the focus of the organisation is on something idealistic (open web), is it too much to expect them to add it to the core of the product?

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Post by k1m » Sat, Mar 30, 2019, 2:40 PM UTC

knight17 wrote: post #3

I just wish Mozilla introduce subscribing to RSS as a first class feature in Firefox. If they can introduce and integrate Pocket, I think an open technology like RSS deserves a fair chance. But they'd need to invest a little bit to make it easy to subscribe—similar to following on Twitter/Instagram or Liking pages on Facebook—to receive site updates. Having to find and enter byzantine URLs is not the way to go althou…

Would like to see more effort in this area too. There was some work done a few years back at https://www.subtome.com/ to make subscribing to RSS feeds easier.

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Post by astazangasta » Sat, Mar 30, 2019, 2:42 PM UTC

knight17 wrote: post #3

I just wish Mozilla introduce subscribing to RSS as a first class feature in Firefox. If they can introduce and integrate Pocket, I think an open technology like RSS deserves a fair chance. But they'd need to invest a little bit to make it easy to subscribe—similar to following on Twitter/Instagram or Liking pages on Facebook—to receive site updates. Having to find and enter byzantine URLs is not the way to go althou…

Can anyone comment on why Mozilla is integrating dodgy services like Pocket and now some ill-conceived screenshot web locker? Is it just hunger for data as revenue?

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Post by seba_dos1 » Sat, Mar 30, 2019, 2:44 PM UTC

astazangasta wrote: post #5

knight17 wrote: post #3

I just wish Mozilla introduce subscribing to RSS as a first class feature in Firefox. If they can introduce and integrate Pocket, I think an open technology like RSS deserves a fair chance. But they'd need to invest a little bit to make it easy to subscribe—similar to following on Twitter/Instagram or Liking pages on Facebook—to receive site updates. Having to find and enter byzantine URLs is not the way to go althou…

Can anyone comment on why Mozilla is integrating dodgy services like Pocket and now some ill-conceived screenshot web locker? Is it just hunger for data as revenue?

"Cloud" features have been recently removed from the screenshot tool, FYI.

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Post by mike-cardwell » Sat, Mar 30, 2019, 2:45 PM UTC

There are some things I like to follow on twitter, but I wanted them integrated in my RSS feed setup, so a few months ago I wrote a simple app which gates twitter to rss, and which can be deployed as a Google Cloud Function. If anyone is interested:

https://www.grepular.com/Twitter_to_RSS_with_Google_Cloud_Fu...

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#8

Post by adamnemecek » Sat, Mar 30, 2019, 2:46 PM UTC

Add responses and maybe.

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#9

Post by prolikewhoa » Sat, Mar 30, 2019, 2:46 PM UTC

astazangasta wrote: post #5

knight17 wrote: post #3

I just wish Mozilla introduce subscribing to RSS as a first class feature in Firefox. If they can introduce and integrate Pocket, I think an open technology like RSS deserves a fair chance. But they'd need to invest a little bit to make it easy to subscribe—similar to following on Twitter/Instagram or Liking pages on Facebook—to receive site updates. Having to find and enter byzantine URLs is not the way to go althou…

Can anyone comment on why Mozilla is integrating dodgy services like Pocket and now some ill-conceived screenshot web locker? Is it just hunger for data as revenue?

Not really related, but does anyone know of an open source Pocket alternative?

Re: RSS Is Better Than Twitter

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Post by k1m » Sat, Mar 30, 2019, 2:47 PM UTC

prolikewhoa wrote: post #9

astazangasta wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can anyone comment on why Mozilla is integrating dodgy services like Pocket and now some ill-conceived screenshot web locker? Is it just hunger for data as revenue?

Not really related, but does anyone know of an open source Pocket alternative?

Try Wallabag: https://wallabag.org

It used to be called Poche (French word for pocket) but they had to change it becuase of a legal threat from Pocket.