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Re: Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere

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Post by clickety_clack »

hoherd wrote: post #61

One of the biggest steps down in Facebook history was their removal of RSS syndication. There was a time in the past when you could subscribe your Facebook account to external RSS feeds. The entries in those feeds would create new content on your "Facebook wall". This essentially let you use any third party that supported RSS to publish content into your Facebook feed. Facebook removed that feature. The effect of thi…

It’s hard to believe now, but Facebook was a good product for a while there.

Re: Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere

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Post by Fiveplus »

The concept is sound, but the syndicate part is becoming increasingly hostile to maintain. I used to have scripts that auto-posted to twitter, facebook and reddit. Over the last two years, almost all of those broke due to API paywalls or aggressive bot detection.

I've found that "POSSE" is shifting more toward "Publish on Own Site, Manually Link Elsewhere."

Paradoxically, ActivityPub (mastodon/fediverse) is the only place where true automated syndication is still reliable. I think the future of POSSE isn't trying to hack together API keys for walled gardens, but treating your personal site as a fedi instance so the syndication is native.

Re: Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere

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Post by sehugg »

hoherd wrote: post #61

One of the biggest steps down in Facebook history was their removal of RSS syndication. There was a time in the past when you could subscribe your Facebook account to external RSS feeds. The entries in those feeds would create new content on your "Facebook wall". This essentially let you use any third party that supported RSS to publish content into your Facebook feed. Facebook removed that feature. The effect of thi…

2011. This in my memory is the year of the industry-wide vibe shift from open APIs to walled gardens/cesspools.

Re: Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere

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Post by est »

jjude wrote: post #106
est wrote: post #105

I really wish Bsky/mastodon has something like RSS so I can static host them for both publishing and aggregating .

Doesn't bsky support rss: profile_url/rss ? For example: This is rss for Simon Willison: https://bsky.app/profile/simonwillison.net/rss

I wish I could host the RSS and the bsky network can accept them.

Re: Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere

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Post by alex1138 »

sehugg wrote: post #115
hoherd wrote: post #61

One of the biggest steps down in Facebook history was their removal of RSS syndication. There was a time in the past when you could subscribe your Facebook account to external RSS feeds. The entries in those feeds would create new content on your "Facebook wall". This essentially let you use any third party that supported RSS to publish content into your Facebook feed. Facebook removed that feature. The effect of thi…

2011. This in my memory is the year of the industry-wide vibe shift from open APIs to walled gardens/cesspools.

Speaking of industry wide shift, how many companies has FB fucked up by proxy?

I refer to the video metrics scandal. How many video autoplay and other things has everyone felt obliged to copy because Zuckerberg (who seems to care about nobody) made FB into a fradulent company?

Re: Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere

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Post by alex1138 »

0xpgm wrote: post #71
hoherd wrote: post #61

One of the biggest steps down in Facebook history was their removal of RSS syndication. There was a time in the past when you could subscribe your Facebook account to external RSS feeds. The entries in those feeds would create new content on your "Facebook wall". This essentially let you use any third party that supported RSS to publish content into your Facebook feed. Facebook removed that feature. The effect of thi…

I guess it happens when engineers stop driving decisions and the finance people take over. Won't be too good for the company's valuation if people can access the content elsewhere. I guess that's why Discord is also locked down as much. They have community content that is inaccessible anywhere else but Discord.

Yeah but Zuck has always been a nasty piece of work. He wasn't "just young" and "grew up" when he wrote those IMs. See: (to list just one) the constant copying of Snapchat

Re: Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere

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Post by sehugg »

cosmic_cheese wrote: post #101
carlosjobim wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

NetNewsWire is great on iOS and OS X. Use the share sheet to subscribe to blogs.

This is what I use. It’s on macOS too and amazing on both. Super fast, focused, and efficient. It’s by far the best I’ve tried. Most other macOS readers aren’t memory managing their webviews properly which leads to really bad memory leaks when they’re open for long periods.

iCloud sync is a nice feature too. I use the Mac app mostly for adding feeds and the iOS app for reading. Anytime I read an interesting web post, I pop its url into the app to see if it has a RSS feed.
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