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Re: RSS Is Better Than Twitter

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Post by mike-cardwell » Sat, Mar 30, 2019, 5:46 PM UTC

superkuh wrote: post #73

alexmingoia wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There’s a number of bridges from Twitter to RSS. I read Twitter in Feeder. See https://feeder.co/knowledge-base/rss-feed-creation/twitter-r...

But nothing you can do yourself without getting throttled by twitter.

If you get your own free developer API key, you're allowed to call the "statuses/user_timeline" 1500 times per day. So you can follow 1500 users before getting throttled, if you only want an update a max of once per day. Or 62 users if you need hourly updates. etc.

Re: RSS Is Better Than Twitter

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Post by Arkanosis » Sat, Mar 30, 2019, 5:46 PM UTC

SkyPuncher wrote: post #46

Lately, I've been getting back into RSS to stay up to date with industry news. I've noticed a lot of industry blogs still support RSS. On Mac, I've been using Leaf with no real complaints. I've found many blogs happily serve rss content, even if a button isn't explicitly advertised. Some of the url's I'll try: * example.com/rss.xml * example.com/index.rss * example.com/?feed=rss * example.com/feed/ * exmample.com/fee…

I usually find RSS feeds by looking at the page source code:

  - ctrl+u
  - ctrl+f rss
  - ctrl+f atom (only if “rss” was not found at step 2).

I can't remember of any site providing RSS on which this hasn't worked. Actually, even for sites that advertise their RSS feed, this approach is the fastest for me (because of the lack of consistency of such advertisements).

Re: RSS Is Better Than Twitter

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Post by vshabanov » Sat, Mar 30, 2019, 5:50 PM UTC

lazyjones wrote: post #87

RSS is like articles without comment sections, completely pointless nowadays. If you can't read corrections, conflicting opinions for something, you might just as well go watch TV. The whole point of Twitter is that it's commentary, not a feed of published articles.

I did a feed reader which supports blog comments years ago (https://bazqux.com) and first thing many people asked me is how to turn comments off. There are some good blogs with good communities and interesting discussions in comments but the majority of comments on popular sites are plain junk.

Re: RSS Is Better Than Twitter

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Post by layoutIfNeeded » Sat, Mar 30, 2019, 5:51 PM UTC

BenoitEssiambre wrote: post #38

knight17 wrote: post #3

I just wish Mozilla introduce subscribing to RSS as a first class feature in Firefox. If they can introduce and integrate Pocket, I think an open technology like RSS deserves a fair chance. But they'd need to invest a little bit to make it easy to subscribe—similar to following on Twitter/Instagram or Liking pages on Facebook—to receive site updates. Having to find and enter byzantine URLs is not the way to go althou…

Why not Google? Google failed to gain traction in the social network space with G+. If you can't beat them commoditize them! Why not make interoperable networks based on open standards first class citizens in chrome/chromium? Not just by adding support but also by helping move the RSS standard forward.

Good idea! Maybe one day Google will create an ecosystem around RSS. They could call it something like “Google Reader”...

Re: RSS Is Better Than Twitter

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Post by toomuchtodo » Sat, Mar 30, 2019, 5:51 PM UTC

jayalpha wrote: post #97

I love RSS feeds. You can convert Twitter to RSS: http://twitrss.me Websites that don't have RSS: https://feedity.com/ Email to RSS: https://zapier.com Hackernews RSS: http://hnrss.org/newest?points=300 You can even use RSS for finding a job: https://www.indeed.ca/jobs?q=millwright&l=Toronto,+ON&sort=d...

Are you aware of an open source/non-commercial email to RSS solution?

Re: RSS Is Better Than Twitter

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Post by godzillabrennus » Sat, Mar 30, 2019, 5:52 PM UTC

I miss using Newsfire before it stopped getting updates.

http://newsfirerss.com/

Re: RSS Is Better Than Twitter

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Post by jayalpha » Sat, Mar 30, 2019, 5:56 PM UTC

toomuchtodo wrote: post #105

jayalpha wrote: post #97

I love RSS feeds. You can convert Twitter to RSS: http://twitrss.me Websites that don't have RSS: https://feedity.com/ Email to RSS: https://zapier.com Hackernews RSS: http://hnrss.org/newest?points=300 You can even use RSS for finding a job: https://www.indeed.ca/jobs?q=millwright&l=Toronto,+ON&sort=d...

Are you aware of an open source/non-commercial email to RSS solution?

No. But Zapier is free for limited applications.

But yes, wish TinyTinyRSS would offer all this functionality. Other RSS readers might be better, but I always return to TinyTinyRSS.

Re: RSS Is Better Than Twitter

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Post by khendron » Sat, Mar 30, 2019, 5:57 PM UTC

Although I am a big fan of RSS, I find this article very disingenuous.

The author complains about the chaos, vulgarity, and hostility of Twitter, but those complaints would apply to almost any social media platform.

Then he suggests replacing it with RSS feeds from curated, professional RSS sources, which is not social media. You could achieve the same things on Twitter if you just followed the same curated, profession Twitter feeds.

This is really just a roundabout argument that can be summarized as "don't read the comments."

Re: RSS Is Better Than Twitter

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Post by moogly » Sat, Mar 30, 2019, 5:58 PM UTC

zaphar wrote: post #54

agnelvishal wrote: post #31

A lot of people were using RSS. Then Google found RSS feeds were hurting Google ad revenues and so Google killed it. Since Firefox these days trails Google, it too stopped supporting RSS feeds

I was there during the turndown. As I remember, RSS had almost no impact on revenue positive or negative. That is why Reader was shutdown actually. Because not enough people used it to impact the bottom line and make it worth keeping.

I don't buy it, because then they would've killed Google+ way earlier.

Re: RSS Is Better Than Twitter

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Post by layoutIfNeeded » Sat, Mar 30, 2019, 5:58 PM UTC

zaphar wrote: post #54

agnelvishal wrote: post #31

A lot of people were using RSS. Then Google found RSS feeds were hurting Google ad revenues and so Google killed it. Since Firefox these days trails Google, it too stopped supporting RSS feeds

I was there during the turndown. As I remember, RSS had almost no impact on revenue positive or negative. That is why Reader was shutdown actually. Because not enough people used it to impact the bottom line and make it worth keeping.

Still had more impact than Google+