I'm saying this without any connection to the service aside from being a customer, but I think Inoreader is doing innovative work in the RSS space.
I Miss RSS
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Re: I Miss RSS
#302Earlier quoted context omitted.
this is what Reader was and has always made me even more confused as to why Google killed it off. They had the right start for a unique take on content focused/small group discussion based social networking and the tossed it for “circles”
Google itself is part of Big Tech Social Control. They're not willing to engage in services where they're not ultimately in control, like RSS. They suffered in the short term, but if you've struggled to find the RSS feed for a website or a podcast lately, that's exactly what they were trying to achieve.
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Re: I Miss RSS
#303Earlier quoted context omitted.
I suppose you could call it an agenda, I think it’s just the consequence of every major social networking platform being incentivized to reduce outgoing links as much as possible to keep everyone in their walled garden of data collection and engagement. At some point we need to stop trying defend the idea that capitalism is good for tech.
> At some point we need to stop trying defend the idea that capitalism is good for tech. Why would a state-owned social media platform be any better? I can think of numerous ways in which it would be dramatically worse. And if given the choice, do you really think people would choose Fedbook over Facebook?
Why does it need to be "owned" at all?
How about Mastodon/Fediverse options?
Same convenience of platform features - finding friends, social gaming, comments, likes, etc. - nobody trying to monetize your eyeballs or actively surveil you.
Re: I Miss RSS
#304Earlier 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…
Also take a look at Cloudron.io. It's not open source, sadly (source is available though), but it's basically what you describe.
In terms of automating things like handling certs for you, I'd say Caddy or even my own boringproxy.
Re: I Miss RSS
#305Someone tell this poor author about FreshRSS!
Someone tell this poor commentator to read the author’s post. :)
Re: I Miss RSS
#306RSS hasn't gone anywhere, you just stopped using it.
I never stopped using it. Major websites and browsers did.
Re: I Miss RSS
#307OP, where's your feed then? I would like to subscribe to it.
Yep came here to mention that too. You find it under '/rss', but website owner should really put auto-detect in their header and add a link for it.
This wouldn’t be necessary if all browsers automatically auto detected RSS feeds still. But, good point. I will add a link to my feed on the main page. I haven’t because of the fact that society killed RSS. But, you all are disagreeing so I’ll add a link.
Re: I Miss RSS
#308Well I was consulting my RSS feeds this morning so I guess the feeling isn't shared
Depends. If you are technical, RSS is a thing.
Re: I Miss RSS
#309When 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.
Did you read my article? I agree with everything you are saying.
Re: I Miss RSS
#310Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 i…
I believe that there was an agenda to kill RSS, very much like how the auto makers in the United States conspired to kill public transit. I don't buy any of the arguments not to implement it. I don't think it is too expensive or confusing. I think it is too empowering to users and inconvenient to marketers.
Right on.