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Compared to reading on the site, then I can ask for donations or do ads. Or newsletter, where I can direct others to support me.
[1]: https://langsoul.com
> So for fun, I wanted to see how many steps it would take to get the information contained in those alerts into a usable RSS feed. The author did it for fun, but if you ever find yourself in this situation and need a solution fast, consider Kill The Newsletter[1]. Free, easy to set up, no accounts needed, open source[2]. [1]: https://kill-the-newsletter.com [2]: https://github.com/leafac/kill-the-newsletter
I’d actually like to have the reverse, an RSS-to-email service.
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I don't think it gets quite to the level of customization you want, but I find Feedly to be very good and is definitely cross-platform. Give it a try if you haven't. The for-pay Pro model has some extra features, and I have had good luck contacting their support.
Does one of you want to give a try to lenns.io? That’s a new type of RSS reader I’m working on. It has import/export so you can try and leave easily. I’m planning for the aforementioned customizations but they are still a few months away.
The information density of Lenns.io is way too sparse.
It displays 9 articles per page on my browser, and I don't seen any way to change that.
By comparison the compact view I'm using in Feedly displays 24 or so articles per page.
I'm not sure if my RSS use is typical, but I suspect it is. I subscribe to a lot of feeds, but I don't actually read but a small number of articles surfaced. I'm not quite sure what the percentage of articles I read is, but I'm guessing it's anywhere from under 1% to upto 5%. It obviously varies a lot by source, but overall it's pretty low.
If I skip 95 articles out of every 100 listed, I need an RSS reader that allows me to glance through a lot of content quickly. Showing me 9 articles per page is going to be far too slow.
I do have some feeds I follow that are visual in nature, for example art related blogs. Those I usually browse with a card view in Feedly, which displays a thumbnail of some sorts with the article.
One default view that's as sparse as the one in lenns.io currently is just not going to work.
I'd love to use RSS for everything, but the problem has always been that most RSS readers are really really bad. I want one where I can add all RSS feeds I care about, then easily filter through the posts by assigning tags I care about, get notifications about certain tags, and easily navigate huge lists. I basically want to filter based on content, tags and other things, then set what kind of notification I'll get b…
For example, I'm a bit of a sneaker head, and subscribe to a lot of sneaker blogs. But I really don't like Nike shoes, which is the most popular sneaker brand, certainly in the US, and every sneaker blog has several Nike related articles every day. I never read any of them. I'd like to just completely omit them from my feeds.
That's kind of a simple example, and I can actually do that somewhat easily, but there are more complex examples. Let's say for example human rights related blogs, but ignore all propaganda content produced by either Governmental sources or about organizations associated with human rights violators. Or ignore all articles mentioning musicians, if the mention is about celebrity gossip. Or ignore content about Al Franken, if it's about his political activity, but still list content that's about his comedy work. Or vice versa.
A lot* of the criticism against RSS/Atom that I've seen on the internet boils down to appeal to novelty; both are old, so assumed to be "bad". But hey, they work. They fill a purpose - they warn you about updates in a site that you might want to check out. They do one thing, and do it well; and for me that "one thing" can be new manga series to read, new videos to watch, news from my city's site (it has RSS), so goes…
The problem is, RSS is not compatible with a few popular models: 1. Closed platform - Places like Spotify, Twitter, Facebook, etc, are dis-incentivized to help you consume content unless they can get you trapped in their UI with your logged in account. 2. Web as a program - Tonnes of people are trying to replace websites with 'apps' and replace programs with the web, neither of which lend themselves nicely to being R…
Eg., https://nitter.net/jack/rss, original account https://nitter.net/jack. If this instance does not work, then try https://nitter.kavin.rocks/jack and https://nitter.kavin.rocks/jack/rss. And if you also need reply tweets, then https://nitter.net/jack/with_replies/rss.
For Youtube, reddit is also possible, might be for spotify too. For Meta owned social media sites like Instagram, Facebook, I don't think it can be done.
Your point 2 and 3 are valid and true.
I'd love to use RSS for everything, but the problem has always been that most RSS readers are really really bad. I want one where I can add all RSS feeds I care about, then easily filter through the posts by assigning tags I care about, get notifications about certain tags, and easily navigate huge lists. I basically want to filter based on content, tags and other things, then set what kind of notification I'll get b…
I just want the ability to have some sort of intelligent negative filters, i.e. the ability to nuke content I don't care about. For example, I'm a bit of a sneaker head, and subscribe to a lot of sneaker blogs. But I really don't like Nike shoes, which is the most popular sneaker brand, certainly in the US, and every sneaker blog has several Nike related articles every day. I never read any of them. I'd like to just…
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I think lart of the problem is RSS is sort of orthogonal to hyper targeted marketing and tracking. With email, you can track who reads the mail, how often, what times, etc. You can tailor recommendations and content to the specific person RSS is just a generic feed that's the same for everyone. Great for consumers--less useful for people trying to optimize monetization
You don't even need to get cynical. Implementing RSS is extra work, thus not everyone is going to implement it. Even if it contributed to the bottom line. It's the same reason every website that publishes information doesn't have an email newsletter. Since it's a consumption optimization, it makes sense for us, those who may want to consume a given website, to implement it (while we wait around for utopia).
> So for fun, I wanted to see how many steps it would take to get the information contained in those alerts into a usable RSS feed. The author did it for fun, but if you ever find yourself in this situation and need a solution fast, consider Kill The Newsletter[1]. Free, easy to set up, no accounts needed, open source[2]. [1]: https://kill-the-newsletter.com [2]: https://github.com/leafac/kill-the-newsletter
I’d actually like to have the reverse, an RSS-to-email service.
A lot* of the criticism against RSS/Atom that I've seen on the internet boils down to appeal to novelty; both are old, so assumed to be "bad". But hey, they work. They fill a purpose - they warn you about updates in a site that you might want to check out. They do one thing, and do it well; and for me that "one thing" can be new manga series to read, new videos to watch, news from my city's site (it has RSS), so goes…
A lot* of the criticism against RSS/Atom that I've seen on the internet boils down to appeal to novelty; both are old, so assumed to be "bad". But hey, they work. They fill a purpose - they warn you about updates in a site that you might want to check out. They do one thing, and do it well; and for me that "one thing" can be new manga series to read, new videos to watch, news from my city's site (it has RSS), so goes…
Time for someone to reinvent RSS in JSON or YAML