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Re: The View from RSS

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Post by crabmusket »

6510 wrote: post #16
sixtyj wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

RSS’ death is real - 15 years ago, almost every news site had a RSS feed, some had several ones. Today? RSS feed is rare. So if you want to make news feed from news sites, you have to use parsing their html code, and ofc everybody has its own structure. JS powered sites are painful ones.

There are feeds of everything. You just have to look harder. edit: provide an example please

Here's an example

https://help.abc.net.au/hc/en-us/articles/6147104938383-Why-...

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Post by reaperducer »

sixtyj wrote: post #11
cadamsdotcom wrote: post #2

I’d like to use this space to praise everyone involved in creating and keeping NetNewsWire alive. I (re)discovered RSS a few months ago via NetNewsWire, and it’s so calming and empowering to curate one’s own feed. Rumors of RSS’ death are greatly exaggerated.

RSS’ death is real - 15 years ago, almost every news site had a RSS feed, some had several ones. Today? RSS feed is rare. So if you want to make news feed from news sites, you have to use parsing their html code, and ofc everybody has its own structure. JS powered sites are painful ones.

15 years ago, almost every news site had a RSS feed, some had several ones. Today? RSS feed is rare.

It may be a reflection of where you get your news.

New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Radio Free Europe, Mainichi, and lots of other legitimate primary source Big-J journalism news sites have RSS.

Rando McRepost's AI-Generated Rehash Blog? Not so much.

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Post by outlore »

I saw Current Reader (no affiliation) posted on the web a couple days ago. It seems like a nice way to keep up to date with many hundreds of feeds by giving them different priorities, where for example a low priority feed may disappear from view quicker than a higher priority one. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/current-reader/id6758530974

I used to use Reeder pretty religiously but as websites started to lock down their feeds and charge subscriptions, it became less useful over time. As readership declines, publishers are rightly concerned to protect their remaining revenue by charging subscriptions. I would love for a new protocol to exist which could compensate providers appropriately and allow for consumer choice in reading with whatever app

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Post by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS »

nickthegreek wrote: post #15

Current setup is freshrss running in a proxmox lxc on prem + tailscale. Big fan of the lire iOS app for interacting on mobile and use the freshrss webui on desktop. killthenewsletter helps patch in some email stuff too. RSS and NNTP are 2 technologies that have been with me for decades and you are gonna have to pry them from me.

I'm using FreshRSS as well, sitting on an OpenBSD VM. I use Capy Reader on Android, as well as the FreshRSS front end on desktop.

It does everything I need with no fuss.

Re: The View from RSS

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Post by CqtGLRGcukpy »

rambambram wrote: post #3

Nice! I'm also around 2000 feeds in my reader, carefully selected over a couple of years. Only difference: I always click through to the website to read an article. Now in the process of slowly making RSS my only social feed. Have a hard time of leaving Youtube, but once I embedded the videos of the channels I follow in my RSS reader I see a way of not getting annoyed by the recommendation algorithm on their website…

YouTube does offer RSS feeds for each channel, you just need the channel id.

For example, the RSS feed for the defunctland channel is https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCVo63lb....

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Post by renegat0x0 »

CqtGLRGcukpy wrote: post #27
rambambram wrote: post #3

Nice! I'm also around 2000 feeds in my reader, carefully selected over a couple of years. Only difference: I always click through to the website to read an article. Now in the process of slowly making RSS my only social feed. Have a hard time of leaving Youtube, but once I embedded the videos of the channels I follow in my RSS reader I see a way of not getting annoyed by the recommendation algorithm on their website…

YouTube does offer RSS feeds for each channel, you just need the channel id. For example, the RSS feed for the defunctland channel is https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCVo63lb... .

I have a list of many youtube channels.

However 2 days ago google marked my page as harmful, so probably not that many will be able to access it.

https://rumca-js.github.io/feeds

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