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Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by jjav »

jamesponddotco wrote: post #105

I think my digital life would be a mess without an RSS feed reader. Because of its existence I do not need to touch Twitter, Reddit, YouTube[1], or any Mastodon instance, for example, as I can just have the updates that interest me from these networks in the comfort of my Feedbin[2] feed. While Hacker News does not provide an interface that notifies you when someone replies to you, hnrss.org provides an RSS feed for…

Same here, RSS is the center of all my internet content consumption. How else could one keep track of things? There isn't any substitute.

I get HN via RSS but didn't know about the replies feed, cool!

I use rss2email to turn everything into effectively a mailing list, so convenient.

Very sad that craigslist broke their RSS feed a few months ago, so I can no longer shop for anything advertised there for sale.

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by StavrosK »

netghost wrote: post #163

RSS lets me see the content I care about without black box algorithms getting in the way. This is so important to me that I wrote a feed reader as a browser plugin so I don't need to worry about a service disappearing some day. If you're curious it's Brook[1], and if you like hacking on things, it's open source[2]. There's a branch that works on Chrome, but I really like Firefox's support for showing content in a sid…

I really like this, well done! I was actually thinking of getting something like it the other day.

Can I suggest keyboard navigation (basically "go to next unread") and "only show unread items"? It would be great to be able to press a key and go to the next unread feed.

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by feralimal »

RSS is the best. Research content, have it delivered to you without any intermediation.

No wonder Google tried to kill it.

And hats off to WordPress for maintaining support for it!

I couldn't agree more than with the first line: "I firmly believe the Internet, and what it stood for, peaked with RSS."

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by [deleted] »

jamesponddotco wrote: post #122
PascalW wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks I'm an RSS nut too but didn't know about hnrss. Super useful to keep track of replies.

Yeah, I found so many cool projects that did not get any atention on Show HN because of hnrss.org. Definetely a feature Hacker News itself should add — they do have RSS for the front page[1], though, with a volume of about 3460 articles per month. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/rss

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Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by _peeley »

If you're an Emacs user, I'd really recommend checking out elfeed (https://github.com/skeeto/elfeed). You can subscribe to RSS feeds just by adding a line to an org-mode file, and then organize and tag all your feeds with all the usual org-mode features.

Also, I think the author is being a little pessimistic about the state of RSS. It might not really be "mainstream", but almost every blog I visit has a feed, also Substack offers feeds, YouTube channels, Reddit, etc. I only just started writing my own self-hosted blog, and within a week or so I got an email asking me if I have an RSS feed. RSS is very much alive and well, if niche.

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by ansonhoyt »

Had to give this a +1 before skimming on with my feeds (Feedly).

I feel my RSS feeds can largely be configured to serve me. The configuration is transparent. I am in control of what internet I consume regularly.

With my social media feeds, the configuration is limited and opaque (e.g. what exactly does "Not interested in this tweet" do?). I don't feel I have much control. I severely limit social media...too many chances to disrupt me.

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by tekromancr »

Gonna paint with a REALLY broad brush here; but I think that a LOT of the same people I see lamenting the web closing off into silos are the same people who, over the last decade or so, helped push everything into said closed silos.

this thought is a result of a conversation I had with an investor I was building a site for. He was really upset that over the years his RSS habits had gotten less and less useful to him. I find a little ironic justice that people who built this closed off ecosystem in pursuit of 10x returns are also feeling some pain as a result.

Guess I am just petty. Also I really fucking miss Trillian, RSS readers, and podcasts that didn't care where you were listening to them from; and I don't think I will ever stop resenting this industry for breaking that.

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