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Re: I Miss RSS

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Post by jrue »

Douglas Adams, [how to learn to love the internet]:

1. everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal;

2. anything that gets invented between then and before you turn 30 is incredibly exciting and creative and with any luck you can make a career out of it;

3. anything that gets invented after you’re 30 is against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilisation as we know it until it’s been around for about ten years when it gradually turns out to be alright really.

(I too miss RSS)

[1] https://internet.psych.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/532-Maste...

Re: I Miss RSS

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Post by indymike »

I rediscovered RSS about six months ago when I switched back to Linux from MacOS and realized Akregator was still part of KDE. Most actual long form content - blogs, news, company websites, podcasts all still have RSS feeds, and once you have 10-20 good ones loaded into Akregator, it's actually a pretty good experience.

Most of the big socials dropped RSS feeds a while back for the same reason their APIs became less useful: they monetized with ads being mixed in with content. Allowing users to view their stream outside the UI literally cuts into the ad revenue.

Re: I Miss RSS

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Post by jonp888 »

karaterobot wrote: post #82

When I see articles like this, my reaction is always: when did RSS go away? I have close to 200 sites in my Feedly list, and I have trouble keeping up with all the articles I get from RSS every day. I think that what the author really means is that he misses RSS feeds from Twitter. I don't use Twitter, so from my perspective, RSS is as present and useful as it was 20 years ago.

It's depressingly and irritatingly common to come across podcasts now which provide links to a dizzying array of podcast aggregation services but not to o their RSS feed, even though they definitely have one because it's how you feed data to these services in the first place.

I suspect a lot of blogs only have a feed now because it's a default feature of the blog platform they use rather than because they see it as important.

Re: I Miss RSS

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Post by packetlost »

m4xm4n wrote: post #108

as other's pointed out, RSS is still here if you want to use it. It's just not ubiquitous as it once was. IMO the big thing that killed RSS ubiquity was Google Chrome not having support for it natively. Before that, Firefox, Opera, Safari all had RSS as well-supported, central thing and I remember finding it super annoying that Chrome didn't have it when it launched. But I kept using Chrome for the same reasons every…

My solution to this was getting a miniflux.app subscription and pinning the tab/setting it as my home page. I got directly to this page via an RSS feed.

Re: I Miss RSS

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Post by hintymad »

My current workaround for not having RSS is to follow twitter accounts and subscribe to email updates. Not ideal, but helps me get by.

Re: I Miss RSS

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Post by ajsnigrutin »

There were many rss to kindle services back then, that I really miss..

The only bad thing about RSS I could find was following the news sites, where every news was equal, so "cat lost" and "massive bomb killed everyone in a city next to you" are treated equally.

Re: I Miss RSS

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Post by sys_64738 »

electric_mayhem wrote: post #26

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.

Me too where I use inoreader for my feeds. I really can’t imagine consuming content any other way. Agree when Google reader died then a lot of webpages cut off support.
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