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Re: I Miss RSS

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Post by gaogao »

zaik wrote: post #100
paxys wrote: post #48

The author paints it as some kind of conspiracy, but the simple truth is that RSS waned in popularity once push notifications became popular and widespread. Every user's RSS reader polling every website for changes every few minutes for all eternity is horribly inefficient and unfeasible to do on most platforms and devices today (especially on mobile). Pub/sub is the clear way forward, but it's just sad that there is…

XMPP is an accepted IETF Internet Standard with PubSub functionality: https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0060.html Sites like Movim ( https://movim.eu/ ) offer an user friendly front-end for this protocol (building upon the ATOM format). You can login using any XMPP account and also self-host Movim instances.

True! Android notifications were even originally built off of gchat and XMPP

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Post by cheschire »

ajsnigrutin wrote: post #119

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.

Have you met the people in the city next to me? Honestly I probably care more about a lost cat. /s

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Post by gnuj3 »

Forgeties79 wrote: post #86
zitterbewegung wrote: post #84

Sort of obvious why RSS went away. It is really hard to put ads into RSS. Sure you can just add a update but that's not really feasible (and could be filtered). So the large sites just started removing it and it helped them capture ad sales.

As a podcast producer, I wish we would wholesale replace RSS soon. It feels like the most paper clip nonsense at this point.

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Re: I Miss RSS

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Post by goatcode »

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.

>"The trend has crept into new software and new web building technologies. Sometimes depending on what you are building your website with it is harder than ever to add RSS feeds."

Even though the water isn't boiling, the heat may still be on.

Re: I Miss RSS

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Post by wizzwizz4 »

j_koreth wrote: post #99
TekMol wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How, exactly, does this system help with RSS in any way? You cannot make a Twitter-2-RSS bridge because Twitter block access to the data. In a decentralized system, access to the data is inherent. Even when The Pirate Bay remains up, that doesn't mean anybody's seeding That is where the financial incentives come into play. Seeding will be economically incentivised. If all the data is directly on the blockchain, nobod…

I don't want to be a naysayer but how would content moderation in regards to spam and illicit things work in this scendario?

Spam cannot be dealt with. Illicit material sticking around is a feature. There is an economic incentive for material that creates a liability for the “seeders” to not be kept around.

To give it as much credit as I can: individual peers could do their own content moderation, deciding what they do and don't want to be around, and if enough people decide something shouldn't be there, it'll basically drop out of availability. But that goes against the whole “market forces” philosophy that it's supposedly based on, and also goes against some of the claims that the proponents of these systems keep making.

It's just a bad system, not even taking into account the pointless CPU cycle wastage. Blockchains sort of make sense for something where each block is based on the previous, but for arbitrary pieces of data? Chaining them like that is faddish unless it brings real concrete benefits over just doing the same thing without blockchain.

Re: I Miss RSS

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Post by verifex »

squarefoot wrote: post #54
verifex wrote: post #3

I miss having a standard for uniform syndication that could be read and updated IN-BROWSER. RIP Firefox RSS feeds.

Dropping support for RSS feeds was an ill decision from them; thankfully there are extensions to restore and extend the functionality. https://nodetics.com/feedbro/ https://github.com/nt1m/livemarks/

Thank you I hadn't looked into a replacement, just thought RSS feeds infringed on some techno-gatekeepers fiefdom and had been deemed too dangerous to live.

Re: I Miss RSS

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Post by tibbydudeza »

The obligatory annual lament of google killing off "Reader" ???.

I still use RSS via Feedly (paid for the one time lifetime subscription) - start it up first thing in the morning but sadly noticed some interesting stuff posted on twitter but it is like finding a gemstone in a fetid swamp.

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