why though?
No one wants 255556 notifications/news per day.
RSS has nothing to do with notifications. In many ways it is actually the antithesis to them.
Reuters killed their RSS feeds?
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Re: Reuters killed their RSS feeds?
#42why 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.
Ask average joe what IMAP is? People don't need to understand the technology they use. Anybody who can use an email client can also use a feed reader.
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#43There 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.
Hidden RSS Urls already exist. Publishers are just lazy to implement it.
Re: Reuters killed their RSS feeds?
#44Is there an alternate source for this? It's how I got my news up until it shut down.
CNN offers several RSS feeds: https://www.cnn.com/services/rss/
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#45The 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…
> Users happily consume the content the platform feeds to them, without much say in it.
You get posts from people/pages you subscribe to in your feeds. I don't see how this is true unless you're just talking about Facebook's non-chronological order. Twitter's nothing like that anyway.
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#46I just noticed today that City Lab as part of their move to Bloomberg also doesn't appear to have a working Atom or RSS feed anymore :( I contacted customer support and told them it worked on the old site but now appears to be gone. I've had a surprising amount of success with this on news sites and magazines in the past, so hopefully they respond positively.
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#47I sent an online support request pointing out the problem (as though they're not aware) and politely asking when it would be fixed. Assuming the reply window for this thread is still open by then, I'll post any response here.
Surely there is a better approach than a passive aggressive support request?
Re: Reuters killed their RSS feeds?
#48The 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…
> Users happily consume the content the platform feeds to them, without much say in it. You get posts from people/pages you subscribe to in your feeds. I don't see how this is true unless you're just talking about Facebook's non-chronological order. Twitter's nothing like that anyway.
> I don't see how this is true unless you're just talking about Facebook's non-chronological order.
It's more than just non-chronological. FB buries many link posts. Specific friends can disappear from your feed for months. FB still has the echo chamber issues it had pre 2016 election, just with fact checking notations sometimes. For many people, FB is where they get their world news at this point, and that's a very skewed way to get your news.
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#49why though?
No ads to be pushed in an RSS feed.
I'm perfectly happy with just getting headlines and a link which is what I get from most sources. If I want to see the content, I'll go to the page. Of course, I'm going to block the ads there too, and that might be true of most RSS users. Maybe sites are just figuring out the "RSS User" demographic is one they'd rather not target.
Re: Reuters killed their RSS feeds?
#50The 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…
Email is being replaced by Slack.
Maybe RSS / Atom weren't good enough, but what they're being replaced with isn't better either.
It's not just about RSS. It's about moving off open standards to closed properties. It's also more effort to integrate different sources as each one has a different API.
Indeed, nor the world nor freedom of information will die here, but that doesn't mean it's a step forward.