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Re: RSS is awesome

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Post by kaoD »

lmm wrote: post #65
627467 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Having restarted using rss in the past months (after probably 10+ years of not using it) i am now starting to remember why I stopped using it: lack of a personal "algorithm" that made hundreds (if not 1000s) of unread daily items to be manageable. I know part of it is on me. I need to let go, unsubscribe aggressively, etc... but this is... work? Im not a regular iOS user, but on it I have feeeeds which actually seem…

> Im not a regular iOS user, but on it I have feeeeds which actually seem to have a sane personal "algorithm" of sorts that doesn't force ALL feeds items onto me, and also isn't purely chronological. > More readers should have this Why? If that's what you want you can get it from your social medium of choice. I use RSS because it gives me precisely what I asked for (for better and for worse), and I suspect the vast m…

Because a local algorithm not dictated by a social media walled garden will probably not optimize for engagement to deliver a large amount of ads.

Re: RSS is awesome

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Post by ibfreeekout »

ropable wrote: post #20

I'm sad that a basic description of what RSS consists of makes it onto HN. I still upvoted to help educate the kids :/ FYI FreshRSS is fairly trivial to self-host, and is a really nice option for an RSS reader app.

This is what I use, and I also have Readrops on my phone that syncs back to my FreshRSS instance. Makes it really convenient to have a lightweight reading app where I can submit new feeds to it and have it sync back to the server.

Re: RSS is awesome

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Post by sewalsh »

al_borland wrote: post #21
627467 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Having restarted using rss in the past months (after probably 10+ years of not using it) i am now starting to remember why I stopped using it: lack of a personal "algorithm" that made hundreds (if not 1000s) of unread daily items to be manageable. I know part of it is on me. I need to let go, unsubscribe aggressively, etc... but this is... work? Im not a regular iOS user, but on it I have feeeeds which actually seem…

The thing that made RSS work for me is to really limit my feeds. Instead of following 10 tech news sites that have a bunch of overlap, I follow 1 that has most of what I want. A few blogs are for apps I use and want to be informed of new information, but they post infrequently, which is good. Feed with dozens of posts per day turn into noise, especially if you have a lot of them. By choosing one site I trust, I let t…

Yikes. I read THOUSANDS of RSS headlines on a daily basis. This is exactly why I use RSS. You can easily get a glimpse of headlines and keep browsing.

Re: RSS is awesome

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Post by sewalsh »

Perizors wrote: post #26

Is there any RSS reader that is also able to subscribe to newsletters in some way? There are lot of contents that are only provided as newsletters nowadays and I wanted to be able to read my feed and newsletters in the same app, without going into my mail inbox.

Feedly has this. You can generate a unique email address for each newsletter. Pretty sure you'll need pay. I'm on a lifetime sub.

Re: RSS is awesome

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Post by al_borland »

sewalsh wrote: post #113
al_borland wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The thing that made RSS work for me is to really limit my feeds. Instead of following 10 tech news sites that have a bunch of overlap, I follow 1 that has most of what I want. A few blogs are for apps I use and want to be informed of new information, but they post infrequently, which is good. Feed with dozens of posts per day turn into noise, especially if you have a lot of them. By choosing one site I trust, I let t…

Yikes. I read THOUSANDS of RSS headlines on a daily basis. This is exactly why I use RSS. You can easily get a glimpse of headlines and keep browsing.

That's the beauty of RSS, people can tailor it to their needs and wants. If I saw thousands of unread items, I'd shut down and give up. On the flip side, if you had my feed list, you'd probably feel like you were missing a ton of stuff. But we can both make it work for us.

I did have a job where I got 10k email per day for a good 10 years, so I probably have some PTSD from that. I'd feel like I was right back there if I had thousands of items per day in my RSS reader. I've been out of that stage of my job for a good 8 years, and I'm just now starting to get a handle on my email again, after feeling like there was no way to control it for so long.

Re: RSS is awesome

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Post by ompogUe »

The most useful value of RSS for me was >20 years ago. craigslist let you create rss feeds with params, so I made a script that got me subscribed to feeds for every location they had in north america where someone was looking for a "telecommute lamp developer"
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