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It's time for an RSS revival (2018)

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

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Post by weberer »

snird wrote: post #30

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…

>RSS feed can't limit only to subscribers

The feed doesn't give you the whole article. Only the first paragraph or two. If you've ever seen someone write "after the jump" they're referring to the content that you can only see when accessing the page directly.

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

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Post by ramoz »

pdimitar wrote: post #55
edem wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm in an unique position that I have half a year now to produce...well whatever I choose to produce. What is the thing that you're missing most?

Distributed chain-of-trust RSS would be nice as a start. Above everything else though, I am missing a decentralized, globally automatically replicated, blockchain-like storage network. Think software releases. Package X releases version 1.3.11. We should have that in an IPFS-like storage network + several hashes (SHA-2, SHA-3 and what have you) so it can never be tampered with. We should also have that version linked…

I don’t quite understand how your desired solution for software supply chains actually achieves much.

Content addressability doesn’t seem different from checksums or subresource integrity.

IPFS requires file pinning, so who is owning that and how is it different from a current state package distributer?

Further, someone/a build-machine still has to upload to the storage network… so Now we need smart contract to build (plus a coin)? … then we’ll need a coin for the compute providers?

And even if we have all of that, Charlie still employs his advanced supply chain attack upstream like he normally does… and we’re still left with malware plus a bubble of infra that didn’t quite solve much it was funded millions to solve.

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

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Post by obrhoff »

bertman wrote: post #26
lpss wrote: post #24

What rss readers for linux can you recommend?

Self-hosted Miniflux, dead-easy, just works. https://miniflux.app/

Also my favorite, I used to host it by myself but went now for the hosted version. the only improvement I would like, would be better full site scrapping. anyway I mostly consume rss through an api (into reeder).

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

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Post by puffybuf »

lexoj wrote: post #36
lpss wrote: post #24

What rss readers for linux can you recommend?

My own tool which creates a daily digest, easy to setup, just run it: https://github.com/piqoni/matcha It will generate RSS in markdown which can be read by something like Obsidian. It supports also Terminal mode.

I looked into this. Obsidian uses a proprietary license and is not open source.

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

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Post by puffybuf »

lolive wrote: post #58

RSS, at the time of Google Reader, was, imho, really buffed up by the addition of Google Buzz for commenting contents with your social network. I can only speak for myself but it was really a very effective duo. (that Twitter or Facebook could barely reproduce, given their egotrip orientation).

It really bothered me when Google Reader went away. I always wondered why they did that??

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

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Post by beej71 »

snird wrote: post #41
beej71 wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're not wrong. But I do wish more people were happy with those "failures", which basically describe the Internet of yore.

I'm a creator myself. Why would I want to build an audience on a platform with no monetization possibility, ever? Even sponsorships are not possible, since I can't reliably count reads (which I can even in email). It's nice to think of the "classic" internet, but it's a naivety that will keep RSS on the edges. And I love RSS idea! I want it back! I hate subscribing to email newsletters in a way that makes it hard to…

I'm also a creator

I do it to hopefully help people out in life. I get enough traffic and thank you notes to make it worthwhile.

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