Is the cache so that items in the RSS feed don't get re-posted? Feels like it could go wrong, especially if the RSS feed is a slow one.
Blueskyfeedbot: Post RSS Feeds to Bluesky via GitHub Actions
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#52We've really come full circle. Back when Facebook was a user-friendly place, you could connect any RSS feed to your Facebook feed. My FB was just a collection of things I posted to del.icio.us, flickr, etc etc. It really was a sign of the crapification of that place that was to come when they ripped out this feature.
Not to mention XMPP integration. Obviously a totally different philosophy that actually cared about the user.
XMPP fully support news feed publication using XMPP Pubsub https://github.com/edhelas/atomtopubsub
Here's the result https://mov.im/community/news.movim.eu/ArsTechnica
The awesome thing is that articles stored in XMPP are actually Atom articles, so there's very little to do.
Re: Blueskyfeedbot: Post RSS Feeds to Bluesky via GitHub Actions
#53Somehow spooky for what github actions are used. On the one side it is cool to have hosted task runners with multiple options thanks to using vms in github actions, on the other side is the question: is this what github actions ate ment for?
Re: Blueskyfeedbot: Post RSS Feeds to Bluesky via GitHub Actions
#54Is there a Python library to do this someplace already, or a good REST walkthrough?
Re: Blueskyfeedbot: Post RSS Feeds to Bluesky via GitHub Actions
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Google Reader shut down nearly 12 years ago. Its legacy now is that there are still people who are pissed off about that, and I get the impression that a surprising amount of them are now in positions where they get to make purchasing decisions over whether or not to buy Google Cloud. (Being a Mac+iPhone person I've settled in quite happily with NetNewsWire now, but it took me a few years to get there.)
My distrust of Google certainly started with the shutdown of Reader. Everything they've done since has made it worse. I was in the position to choose a cloud provider several years ago and would not even consider GCP. I seriously doubt they'll kill GCP, but I see no reason to take a chance on anything Google does outside of search, docs, mail and the core things.
We chose GCP, and the work to accommodate restructuring of services (currently container registry to artifacts) is indeed an annoying.
Re: Blueskyfeedbot: Post RSS Feeds to Bluesky via GitHub Actions
#56RSS and AT Proto have been on my mind all week. Even though RSS is my main source of news, it’s impossible to get around the fact that the (incredibly, unfathomably stupid) shutdown of Google Reader kneecapped it. AT Protocol is more than “let’s make Twitter more open” — it’s an open protocol for anything that’s real-time and shareable. I was never a big Google Reader guy, I liked traditional clients like NetNewsWire…
> an open protocol for anything that’s real-time and shareable Does that mean that at the protocol level one can share content of larger sizes than what Bluesky does by default? Even though not standard at least via the ActivityPub protocol one can set more reasonable character lengths, though unsure how most Mastodon clients handle that in practice. Bluesky devs seem set, from some past HN interaction, on keeping th…
There already is a Reddit-like application that uses ActivityPub. It's called Lemmy (https://join-lemmy.org/).
Re: Blueskyfeedbot: Post RSS Feeds to Bluesky via GitHub Actions
#57RSS and AT Proto have been on my mind all week. Even though RSS is my main source of news, it’s impossible to get around the fact that the (incredibly, unfathomably stupid) shutdown of Google Reader kneecapped it. AT Protocol is more than “let’s make Twitter more open” — it’s an open protocol for anything that’s real-time and shareable. I was never a big Google Reader guy, I liked traditional clients like NetNewsWire…
> an open protocol for anything that’s real-time and shareable Does that mean that at the protocol level one can share content of larger sizes than what Bluesky does by default? Even though not standard at least via the ActivityPub protocol one can set more reasonable character lengths, though unsure how most Mastodon clients handle that in practice. Bluesky devs seem set, from some past HN interaction, on keeping th…
In my experience, Mastodon clients handle large posts (say 5000 chars instead of 500) very well.
> In a decentralized application, such as Bluesky, as opposed to Mastodon, I can see a future where it would be a replacement for Reddit and HN, without those limits.
Not sure if you're saying that Bluesky is decentralized and Mastodon not, which if anything would be the other way around. The other interpretation is that you can see Bluesky as a replacement for HN/Reddit, but not Mastodon. My take is that both are unfit for that, since they're heavily embracing the micro-blogging format. I'm not sure if there are any ATProto applications like this already, but Lemmy and MBin are both examples of decentralized link aggregators using ActivityPub.
Re: Blueskyfeedbot: Post RSS Feeds to Bluesky via GitHub Actions
#58RSS and AT Proto have been on my mind all week. Even though RSS is my main source of news, it’s impossible to get around the fact that the (incredibly, unfathomably stupid) shutdown of Google Reader kneecapped it. AT Protocol is more than “let’s make Twitter more open” — it’s an open protocol for anything that’s real-time and shareable. I was never a big Google Reader guy, I liked traditional clients like NetNewsWire…
Bluesky has launched RSS feeds - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39007756 - Jan 2024 https://openrss.org/blog/bluesky-has-launched-rss-feeds How would you extend this ("a distinct AT Proto lexicon seems like the actual way forward IMHO") beyond the RSS feed you can get from a Bluesky profile?
RSS feed is a pull type thing, AT Proto is push if I understand it correctly.
So instead of you polling an RSS feed on Bluesky, they would send you a stream of messages
Re: Blueskyfeedbot: Post RSS Feeds to Bluesky via GitHub Actions
#59RSS and AT Proto have been on my mind all week. Even though RSS is my main source of news, it’s impossible to get around the fact that the (incredibly, unfathomably stupid) shutdown of Google Reader kneecapped it. AT Protocol is more than “let’s make Twitter more open” — it’s an open protocol for anything that’s real-time and shareable. I was never a big Google Reader guy, I liked traditional clients like NetNewsWire…
Google Reader shut down nearly 12 years ago. Its legacy now is that there are still people who are pissed off about that, and I get the impression that a surprising amount of them are now in positions where they get to make purchasing decisions over whether or not to buy Google Cloud. (Being a Mac+iPhone person I've settled in quite happily with NetNewsWire now, but it took me a few years to get there.)
They tried to force the free GSuite editions into paid a year or two ago.
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
My distrust of Google certainly started with the shutdown of Reader. Everything they've done since has made it worse. I was in the position to choose a cloud provider several years ago and would not even consider GCP. I seriously doubt they'll kill GCP, but I see no reason to take a chance on anything Google does outside of search, docs, mail and the core things.
My self hosted FreshRSS instance is better than Google Reader ever was. Just about every website and service I use has feeds. People/geeks are rediscovering RSS. I think this might be the golden age of RSS.
I recently discovered that FreshRSS has a built-in xPath parser/webscrapper[1] so you can actually subscribe to any website, even if it doesn't have an actual feed.
It's not straightforward to use because of the lack of a test/debug interface, but its worth the effort to set it up!
[1]: https://freshrss.github.io/FreshRSS/en/users/11_website_scra...