This turned up in my RSS feed of hacker news. Yes, google basically killed RSS through embrace, extend, extinguish. There’s no money in democratizing self-publishing.
how do you have a RSS feed of HN? what links does it include out of the thousands that are posted here daily? also, can I ask you what service are you currently using for you RSS feed? thanks.
I Miss RSS
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Re: I Miss RSS
#42All that is to say that RSS still works. What's missing is the original content creators of the early RSS world. Nowadays, most people create small, easy-to-write, easy-to-consume content in one of the walled gardens since the notifications, interactions, and network are all included for them.
Re: I Miss RSS
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Having self-hosted for a long time, I find it's getting easier in a lot of ways what with Docker and all. 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, an…
Nowadays, for me at least, it IS really easy to self-host anything. Get the docker image, add a deployment to my k8s cluster. Ship it. Getting to this point was less simple.
Re: I Miss RSS
#44To be honest, I don't. Websites like Reddit or Hacker News are better because they provide popularity scores into the links, helping me filtered out junk links.
Re: I Miss RSS
#45This turned up in my RSS feed of hacker news. Yes, google basically killed RSS through embrace, extend, extinguish. There’s no money in democratizing self-publishing.
how do you have a RSS feed of HN? what links does it include out of the thousands that are posted here daily? also, can I ask you what service are you currently using for you RSS feed? thanks.
Re: I Miss RSS
#46I 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…
still ? It's not like there's something better out there
I'm unaware of other ways to get consistent listings of new content at various sites in a machine readable format.
Re: I Miss RSS
#47This turned up in my RSS feed of hacker news. Yes, google basically killed RSS through embrace, extend, extinguish. There’s no money in democratizing self-publishing.
how do you have a RSS feed of HN? what links does it include out of the thousands that are posted here daily? also, can I ask you what service are you currently using for you RSS feed? thanks.
Re: I Miss RSS
#48Re: I Miss RSS
#49The primary thing I wish was better is a way to handle social commentary. Unfortunately this is an extremely hard problem to solve without allowing spamming and brigading.