It's time for an RSS revival (2018) • Hacker News Board

Re: It's time for an RSS revival (2018)

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Post by PaulHoule » Fri, Dec 23, 2022, 3:35 PM UTC

kkfx wrote: post #13

Feeds are NOT just a way to craft a personal selection of news in a personal LOCAL UI, with optional full-text-search, local storage for articles, tagging etc BUT also a simple form of asynchronous/lazy push-pull notifications. For instance we can have feeds for: - all software project we use/follow, to get info about a new release without having to go to a site/read an ML etc and perhaps finding the Changelog direct…

Yes, some kind of asynchronous personal agent is a great idea. It is the ultimate anti-social media, your very own "super app" that handles your digital life for you.

I want it

Re: It's time for an RSS revival (2018)

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Post by yunruse » Fri, Dec 23, 2022, 3:39 PM UTC

I’m becoming a real fan of using RSS for anything that fits it – websites, YouTube [0], email newsletters [1]; even books [2]! Honestly I’m tempted to start putting summaries (hacker news, stack exchange, reddit) in my feeds, just to keep me from endless scrolling.

[0] I think Feedly can handle this, but YouTube may have disabled this natively, which is a shame.

[1] I’m a fan of https://kill-the-newsletter.com

[2] Dracula Daily (https://draculadaily.substack.com/about) and Letters from Watson (https://lettersfromwatson.substack.com/about) are quite fun!

Re: It's time for an RSS revival (2018)

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Post by 40four » Fri, Dec 23, 2022, 3:41 PM UTC

This should have (2018) in the title please :)

Re: It's time for an RSS revival (2018)

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Post by lpss » Fri, Dec 23, 2022, 3:48 PM UTC

What rss readers for linux can you recommend?

Re: It's time for an RSS revival (2018)

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Post by lpss » Fri, Dec 23, 2022, 3:48 PM UTC

what rss reader can you recommend for linux?

Re: It's time for an RSS revival (2018)

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Post by bertman » Fri, Dec 23, 2022, 3:52 PM UTC

lpss wrote: post #24

What rss readers for linux can you recommend?

Self-hosted Miniflux, dead-easy, just works.

https://miniflux.app/

Re: It's time for an RSS revival (2018)

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Dec 23, 2022, 4:01 PM UTC

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Re: It's time for an RSS revival (2018)

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Post by Sidneys1 » Fri, Dec 23, 2022, 4:07 PM UTC

Two RSS submissions today, from different sources. Interesting.

Haven't seen this in the comments for either: https://miniflux.app/

A very lightweight self-hosted web client for managing RSS feeds. I very much like it.

Re: It's time for an RSS revival (2018)

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Post by karaterobot » Fri, Dec 23, 2022, 4:24 PM UTC

I think there are more people who are just looking for the next Twitter than who are going to switch to RSS. That's not what I'd like to see happen, but it's the sense I get. Whatever people get from those platforms, it is not available in an equivalent dose through content syndication. Most likely they'll go back to Twitter, or one of these other platforms will win out, but the least likely outcome is that we return to a pre-social media world.

Re: It's time for an RSS revival (2018)

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Post by snird » Fri, Dec 23, 2022, 4:28 PM UTC

RSS fails miserably on 2 things:

1. Discoverability 2. Monetization

Consider YouTube - it provides discoverability through the algorithmic feed. Giving creators a distribution platform they can't find anywhere else. It also provides monetization through ads, sponsorships and direct support to creators.

Consider Newsletters - no discoverability built in, but it does support monetization. Pay to subscribe, and only you will get the newsletter. RSS feed can't limit only to subscribers.