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These days most things are abstracted away by a web interface or app hosted in the cloud.
Sure this makes a nicer UX, but it has the side-effect of creating walled gardens.
I 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…
When Google reader shut down, I moved to feedly for like a week. Then I started getting anxiety that feedly would shut down too. Because if google could kill off a product i relied on, anyone could. And that got me into self hosting and running my own services. ttrss was basically my first self hosted thing almost a decade ago. It was great. And then it turned out the guy running it was a bit not pleasant, and I didn…
I'm starting to wonder where "Sandstorm 2.0" is. Sandstorm, for those who don't know, was basically an attempt to make self hosting really viable, but was tragically ahead of its time because it predated Docker. So they burned tons of effort on sandboxing, and wrapping existing applications into their sandbox, and it was just too hard to port things into their world to get very many applications running.
It seems like a project that would do that in terms of docker-compose files could be created for much less effort, and maybe not quite all the pretty-shiny they had. But as I'm struggling right now a bit to bring up a Bitwarden server, there's still pain around setting up the forwards properly and getting the Let's Encrypt certificate. Something that managed all this better wouldn't be too hard, and could just be slammed up on a small AWS instance or something would be easy. (Branching out to other services over time or something.) Plus setting up proper backups would be nice. We're so, so much closer to being able to do this nowadays than we used to be... for instance, S3 has also become a near universal API, so backups using it have gotten to be easy but they can still be done without vendor lockin.
Then it would be really easy to self-host an RSS reader or something.
I'm hoping this will either prompt someone to consider this project, or prompt someone to tell me "It already exists, go here and here and run this docker command to install it."
RSS 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…
Consider a “decentralised” blockchain system that does the work of The Pirate Bay – providing hashes of particular files, along with their names, so that people can select and request data from the P2P network.
How, exactly, does this system help with RSS in any way?
Additionally, how does this system help with the “censorship” issues that The Pirate Bay has? Even when The Pirate Bay remains up, that doesn't mean anybody's seeding.
And a blockchain-based system has to have this limitation. If all the data is directly on the blockchain, nobody can actually download it all, so the blockchain becomes unverifiable and ceases to have any cryptographic properties at all. (In short, there's no benefit to a blockchain at all.)
There is one webcomic I enjoy, but can't get an RSS feed, because it's on a service similar to WebToons.
RSS 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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Yes, google basically killed RSS through embrace, extend, extinguish.
There’s no money in democratizing self-publishing.
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Isn't https://news.ycombinator.com/rss a thing?
This topic comes up semi-frequently. I'm personally a fan of RSS but it certainly has issues: (For the purposes of this comment I'm mostly referring to Atom/ 1. RSS is, at the end of the day, a syndication format, _not_ a feedback or posting format. 2. RSS feeds have no real concept of portability between devices or user agents. Kludges like OPML can be used to aggregate feeds for sharing across user agents, but they…
You can encode html in feeds. You just have to mark them as cdata.
I will take the opportunity to ask about two issues I am currently facing.
- Is there a feed for Github discussions?
- Does anyone have some ideas/sources for bookmark scripts? I found [2], but I am not really sure what it does.
[2]:https://github.com/gpakosz/.newsboat/blob/master/bookmark.sh
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E: To add, in my opinion the killer feature of Newsboat is the fact that all links get appended to the article, similar to how I added the two links below my post. In Newsboat I can just press the corresponding number and open the link!