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Its strongest hold is definitely in Podcasting. Right now, thats basically all a podcast feed is, its an RSS feed. This is largely due to the hands off nature that Apple had with podcasting for so long, though Spotify[0] is trying to wrestle this control over the ecosystem in moving away from publishing an open RSS feed. Its very much alive in this way though, at least for now, and I think its important to recognize…
RSS as it was existed 10+ years ago there were was the little orange RSS icon on most websites and blogs is 100% dead and won't ever come back. Personally I think this is a shame but the majority BigCorps want to know who is consuming their news/information and dislike their information being disseminated anonymously via RSS feeds. They'd prefer be able to track you online (because you visited their website to read s…
The thing about RSS is that big tech companies are not very fond of it because it gives too much control to the user and it's not so easy to flood you with ads when you use it. So, many of those companies either don't offer RSS, or they have it but they don't advertise it much and maybe they just do the bare minimum. Unfortunately, since social media has replaced blogs as the go-to place for discussions and user-gene…
It's coming back, thanks to Lire's automagic local caching for offline reading of text and images, https://lireapp.com/ > unlike other RSS feed readers, that either push you into a browser (in-app or otherwise), or depend on third party text parsing services and require you to be online to fetch the full text of one article at a time (which makes it no different from having to click/tap through to a website), in lire…
> Ask HN: Is RSS dying? Or coming back?
Feedly has about 30mn of downtime now and then; I'd say once a year. /s
It's not dying, thus it doesn't have to come back.
> Is RSS still actively developed as a protocol?
I don't think it does, and I like it.
> If not, why not?
Why should it? Don't break something that works.
> Are there any viable alternatives on the horizon?
RSS is viable to me. I understand that some may want to add tracking and paid suscriptions; but that's not a bug, that's a feature. I don't want some content pushers to constantly try to ram something down my throat -wasting my precious time- just so that they can make a few cents off my back annually.
> I find it really troubling that we seem to have resigned ourselves to web content discovery and distribution belonging to corporations like Google and Meta.
?? I actually went on Feedly because Google EOL'd gReader
> Also grateful for any reading recommendations on this subject
Here's my advice: take the habit of actually seeking information. You saw a thread on Facebook about Photogrammetry? Then research how it is done. When you stumble on a source that is useful to you, try to identify if new content may be produced; and try to find an RSS feed. Boom, you're now subscribed to a Palaeontologist's articles about macro-Photogrammetry, how he captures details in fossils:
https://peterfalkingham.com/category/photogrammetry/
It's called curating information for your own needs; come back in a few years to thank me. By then you'll have gone a few rabbit-holes of technical specialization, and have an information pipeline way better than the 3-seconds-attention-optimized Facebook's feed.
Seems like mailing lists are getting popular. I wish I could have those in my RSS reader.
RSS readers that manage mailing lists: Inoreader: https://www.inoreader.com/blog/2020/02/declutter-your-inbox-... Newsblur: https://blog.newsblur.com/2016/07/01/newsletters-in-your-new... (open source and self-hostable) Feedly: https://feedly.com/i/pro Also, Kill the Newsletter ( https://kill-the-newsletter.com/ ) converts newsletters to RSS feeds, and is open source/self-hostable.
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Syncing across devices isn't the job of RSS, or any protocol, and certainly not the role of a data format in the case of RSS. State is an application's job.
Ok then we can just phrase it as there's no standard way to sync RSS subs across apps. Point is its a clear user frustration with no easy solve.
I curated a huge .OPML file that I've been using for a decade now with no problems. I cherry picked the RSS feeds by first visiting the blog, then hunting for the feed either by using an addon or using Firefox's (now defunct) RSS feed button. Currently there's 500 blogs added. I avoided feeds which were mere summaries of the blog's post, and contained the full post so I could read it entirely. No ADs. No tracking. No…
I really hope it is not dying, as it is my favorite way of following sites around the web. Recently I also started attacking my YouTube dependency by adding YT channels as RSS feeds and avoid the YT homepage. I only store feeds for the most relevant YT channels and I get notified when a new video is posted on those channels. If anyone is interested: view the source of a YT channel, look for "externalId", copy that ID…