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RSS Is Better Than Twitter
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Re: RSS Is Better Than Twitter
#52There 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...
There is also https://www.twitrss.me/
I use twitrss.me's perl code to do my own thing locally and I've found that twitter throttles me scraping from my home IP very heavily. I can scrape my twitter users/searches about 3 times per day if I space them out correctly. Any more and the pages just stop returning anything at all.
Re: RSS Is Better Than Twitter
#53Remember when Twitter offered RSS feeds? It made the service actually useful.
There’s a number of bridges from Twitter to RSS. I read Twitter in Feeder. See https://feeder.co/knowledge-base/rss-feed-creation/twitter-r...
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#54A lot of people were using RSS. Then Google found RSS feeds were hurting Google ad revenues and so Google killed it. Since Firefox these days trails Google, it too stopped supporting RSS feeds
I was there during the turndown. As I remember, RSS had almost no impact on revenue positive or negative. That is why Reader was shutdown actually. Because not enough people used it to impact the bottom line and make it worth keeping.
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#55Earlier 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?
Well they bought Pocket, so I'd assume they wouldn't want their investment to be for nothing.
They bought Pocket AFTER they installed it by default in Firefox as some kind of PR disaster control.
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#56Add responses and maybe.
You mean “add rss to your own blog and set a link back on your blog roll”? Internet 1.5 was pretty nice, in hindsight.
Yup. To add to that, posting a reply to your own blog and setting rel=“in-reply-to” and notifying the author with Webmention provides standard decentralized comments/notifications. See aaronparecki.com and the indieweb community for examples.
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#57I don't use RSS much, but fire it up whenever searching on Craigslist for something. Havning multiple CL searches registered as feeds in a feed reader leads to a much more efficient workflow than using the site directly. The presentation of the items is better: you get something very analogous to an e-mail inbox, in which you can easily delete unwanted items, and hide ones you have read. And all of the multiple searches appear like folders and update automatically; you see a count of new items in each one.
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've implemented displaying of blog posts comments in BazQux Reader ( https://bazqux.com ) years ago. But in general it works well only for niche sites with good communities. Popular sites have too many spam/bullshit in comments. BTW: it's possible to read Twitter in RSS reader too and make it a "slow web".
How are you fetching the comments? RSS has no support for that as far as I know.
Atom has support for commments. Decentralized blog comments work like this: You post a reply to your own blog and set rel=“in-reply-to” then notify the author using Webmention. The authors blog software then adds the comment, which gets included in the feed. See aaronparecki.com for working example and the IndieWeb community in general for an example of a community doing standard decentralized comments on the web.
The future of the blogosphere remains bright.
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wow I never knew. I would have used it if I knew.
The "rss support" was a folder, filled with links named after the article titles. It was good that it was removed, as it was useless to put it mildly
Though useless, I think that some RSS extensions were able to pull feeds from there.
Re: RSS Is Better Than Twitter
#60I load in RSS feeds on my HN alternative ( handlr.sapico.me ) , one company is using it as a knowledge feed ( accounting niche). So I definitely agree with the title of this topic.