There should be a way to integrate RSS with a payment model. People should be free to get content they want in any app of their choice based and still be able to pay for it.
Reuters killed their RSS feeds?
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Re: Reuters killed their RSS feeds?
#32Interesting that their FeedBurner CNAME[0] is still set. [0] http://feeds.reuters.com/
For sure whomever is in charge of their DNS found out about this the same time we did.
Re: Reuters killed their RSS feeds?
#33The death of RSS is the death of the federated web model where users view and consume the content they want to. Modern alternatives like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram do not serve users in the same way. Users happily consume the content the platform feeds to them, without much say in it. It's an eerie return to the pre-Internet days, where the only choices a consumer had were to change the TV channel / radio dial…
I think this is only a short-term effect. In response to things becoming more locked down, more and more "info liberation" projects will take root, and in the end the information will just gradually all leak out and end up outside the prison wall, in compatible, accessible formats. Then, eventually, even the sources of the information will switch to publishing it in the libresphere, because at that point the best aud…
I hope you're right, but this is an extremely optimistic view that does not have much historical precedent.
Re: Reuters killed their RSS feeds?
#34why though?
Ask average Joe what's an RSS feed and you'll know. Supporting effectively dead technology doesn't make financial sense for any company.
Whilst it’s true that fewer and fewer consumers use RSS, it’s still a very powerful way for aggregators to source stories and drive readers to the original publisher. Think about it more as an api for building a “shopfront” for your news stories and the fact that most publishers still provide RSS makes much more sense.
Re: Reuters killed their RSS feeds?
#35The death of RSS is the death of the federated web model where users view and consume the content they want to. Modern alternatives like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram do not serve users in the same way. Users happily consume the content the platform feeds to them, without much say in it. It's an eerie return to the pre-Internet days, where the only choices a consumer had were to change the TV channel / radio dial…
I think this is only a short-term effect. In response to things becoming more locked down, more and more "info liberation" projects will take root, and in the end the information will just gradually all leak out and end up outside the prison wall, in compatible, accessible formats. Then, eventually, even the sources of the information will switch to publishing it in the libresphere, because at that point the best aud…
Isn’t the Wikipedia current events portal just that?
Re: Reuters killed their RSS feeds?
#36Re: Reuters killed their RSS feeds?
#37why though?
No one wants 255556 notifications/news per day.
Re: Reuters killed their RSS feeds?
#38The death of RSS is the death of the federated web model where users view and consume the content they want to. Modern alternatives like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram do not serve users in the same way. Users happily consume the content the platform feeds to them, without much say in it. It's an eerie return to the pre-Internet days, where the only choices a consumer had were to change the TV channel / radio dial…
Hogwash
Email works fine. I am in months long conversations with academics and thinkers around the world.
Signal works fine. Same story as above.
What’s dying is your historical connectivity to specific ideas.
That’s hardly a sign fascism and censorship are settling in.
And really you’re saying it was impossible for anyone to blindly get addicted to an RSS feed, just reading whatever is posted to it?
Good grief. Your brain is experiencing chemical shock over one of thousands of epistemological inventions going away. That’s akin to the dark ages literally returning?
Perhaps your connection to current events is coloring your thoughts here. RSS still exists. History wasn’t sucked into a black hole.
This is what’s deflating about the tech scene. All these weird hills to die on, as if some favored bespoke language that is only 10-12 years old anyway losing popular favor means 1984 is upon us!
Re: Reuters killed their RSS feeds?
#39Is there an alternate source for this? It's how I got my news up until it shut down.
AP and Reuters have excellent twitter feeds.
Re: Reuters killed their RSS feeds?
#40why though?
Ask average Joe what's an RSS feed and you'll know. Supporting effectively dead technology doesn't make financial sense for any company.
RSS isn't dead, it's just not popular (never has been). Teletype wasn't popular either, still it was essential to some. And while teletype clearly requires costly specialized hardware, RSS doesn't.