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I love RSS, have my own instance of Miniflux [1] on my Raspberry Pi and I got it connected with Discord and Matrix to read articles on the go. [1]: https://miniflux.app/
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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).
I wouldn't say cynical so much as pointing out it just doesn't make much business sense to add.
Begging website operators to implement RSS is a dead end. If it worked, RSS would be ubiquitous and we wouldn't have these kinds of futile submissions that preach to the choir. Instead of hoping every website operator in the world does something, it seems far more scalable to centralize efforts into a youtube-dl style repository so anyone can host their own website-to-RSS gateway.
I dunno. When I was still writing publicly someone reached out for me to add RSS to my website and it took me like 3 hours maybe to add it to my hand written static site compiler. It's a pretty simple protocol, even if I would have done things differently. For example, relative paths should be supported with some sort of top level setting called "root" or something like that. That way I wouldn't have to convert relat…
Atom feeds support xml:base explicitly.
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I’d actually like to have the reverse, an RSS-to-email service.
Those are a dime a dozen, and a web search returns multiple on the first page. They tend to be submitted to HN. Examples: * https://blogtrottr.com * https://feedrabbit.com * https://feedsub.com
It's monitized by an ad at the top and bottom of each email.
It also provides an option to send an initial email with the full history of the feed to date.
No affiliation, I just happen to use it.
Begging website operators to implement RSS is a dead end. If it worked, RSS would be ubiquitous and we wouldn't have these kinds of futile submissions that preach to the choir. Instead of hoping every website operator in the world does something, it seems far more scalable to centralize efforts into a youtube-dl style repository so anyone can host their own website-to-RSS gateway.
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
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I dunno. When I was still writing publicly someone reached out for me to add RSS to my website and it took me like 3 hours maybe to add it to my hand written static site compiler. It's a pretty simple protocol, even if I would have done things differently. For example, relative paths should be supported with some sort of top level setting called "root" or something like that. That way I wouldn't have to convert relat…
> It's a pretty simple protocol, even if I would have done things differently. For example, relative paths should be supported with some sort of top level setting called "root" or something like that. That way I wouldn't have to convert relative paths. Atom feeds support xml:base explicitly.
Begging website operators to implement RSS is a dead end. If it worked, RSS would be ubiquitous and we wouldn't have these kinds of futile submissions that preach to the choir. Instead of hoping every website operator in the world does something, it seems far more scalable to centralize efforts into a youtube-dl style repository so anyone can host their own website-to-RSS gateway.
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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…
I get twitter feeds by RSS. I use https://nitter.net which is a privacy focused proxy for twitter. It has an in-built RSS feature. 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,…
I didn't realise it was capable of serving RSS! It still puts you at the mercy of Twitter's API support and a random host to not interfere with the original message...
> For Youtube, reddit is also possible, might be for spotify too.
I don't use Reddit (HackerNews is as far down the internet rabbit hole as I want to go), but I know Youtube still allows RSS (just about). They have been slowly but surely removing the feature though. You used to be able to export all of your subscribers as OPML, now you can't. There used to be an easy way to find RSS feeds, now there isn't. I suspect before long they will move to remove them entirely.