I Miss RSS
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I Miss RSS
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Re: I Miss RSS
#2RSS is still alive and kicking. I came here via RSS.
But the masses browse a locked down web. That is true.
We might have another shot at an open web for the masses via the whole crypto movement.
If content goes on decentralized blockchains in the future, nobody can lock the content down like big tech did for Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok etc.
Projects like Arweave show how it is possible to store huge amounts of data on a blockchain without using much resources.
If we get there, it will be trivial to build blockchain-to-rss bridges. I am ready to build some to get my favorite content into my RSS reader.
My feeling is that there might be a way towards a decentralized web via financial incentives. In a decentralized web, crypto currencies can float around freely. Making it easy for the actors to earn. Old platforms will probably be slow to open up to crypto currencies.
Re: I Miss RSS
#3I miss having a standard for uniform syndication that could be read and updated IN-BROWSER. RIP Firefox RSS feeds.
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#4RSS is still alive and kicking. I came here via RSS. But the masses browse a locked down web. That is true. We might have another shot at an open web for the masses via the whole crypto movement. If content goes on decentralized blockchains in the future, nobody can lock the content down like big tech did for Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok etc. Projects like Arweave show how it is possible to store huge amounts…
Oh please go away.
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#5Still alive and I use it on daily basis...
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#6I'm still consuming plenty of stuff via RSS using the Mac app Vienna. I honestly don't spend as much time in Vienna as I did in Google Reader back in the day though - primarily because over the years more and more feeds went dead.
It seems like different niches treat RSS differently - many of the webcomics I've subscribed to still publish via RSS. Even if the actual comic image isn't included in the RSS, there's at least a feed entry with a link to go to the site to view the comic. But my "Cars" category in Vienna is basically empty - I guess the various automotive blogs and magazines I subscribed to were run by folks who didn't care about RSS as they migrated platforms, etc. Or maybe they actively shut their feeds off to try to drive traffic to their homepages.
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#7I still use RSS. I use Feedly to curate various RSS feeds and many website still have them, or at least the tech focussed ones.
I used to be subscribed to more but some RSS feeds have such high traffic it's difficult to follow them, such as the BBC news feed.
Feedly has a nice new feature [0] that makes an RSS feed out of a standard website, so that might be worth considering if you have some news sources that don't publish a RSS feed. Unfortunately this wouldn't work with anything that requires authentication like private Twitter feeds for example.
[0] https://blog.feedly.com/easily-follow-websites-that-dont-hav...
Re: I Miss RSS
#8I still use RSS. I use Feedly to curate various RSS feeds and many website still have them, or at least the tech focussed ones. I used to be subscribed to more but some RSS feeds have such high traffic it's difficult to follow them, such as the BBC news feed. Feedly has a nice new feature [0] that makes an RSS feed out of a standard website, so that might be worth considering if you have some news sources that don't…
Same here. I still use it. Works fine with me, but then, I'm a bit old fashioned in that twitter/facebook/other social media isn't my news source.
Re: I Miss RSS
#9RSS is still alive and kicking. I came here via RSS. But the masses browse a locked down web. That is true. We might have another shot at an open web for the masses via the whole crypto movement. If content goes on decentralized blockchains in the future, nobody can lock the content down like big tech did for Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok etc. Projects like Arweave show how it is possible to store huge amounts…
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Re: I Miss RSS
#10I started using feedly again this week for monitoring some listservs / mailing list archives, and also some craigslist searches for things I want to buy, all in one place.
The sensible websites still offer it, and the ones that don't are a toxic dumpster fire anyway. Yes, I too remember the good old days when you could monitor facebook, twitter, etc all in an RSS reader, and then they stopped their RSS feeds. The thing to realize is that they also stopped being useful, user-oriented sites at the same time.