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Using RSS to replace social media

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Re: Using RSS to replace social media

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Post by dang »

Kaze404 wrote: post #5

It's fascinating to me that even in a post for something as simple and mundane as RSS feeds somehow Luke Smith still manages to sprinkle in some of his disgusting alt-right vocabulary. I have to respect the grift.

"Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It's important not to react to the most provocative thing in an article by copying it into the comments to complain about it. It just leads to the threads turning into the same flamewars over and over again, which is the opposite of what HN is supposed to be for. We want comments to come from a place of curiosity.

I know it takes a certain self-regulation not to take the bait, and this is not easy - it seems to go against hard-wiring - but it's something that we all need to work on as a community. The idea is to maximize interesting discussions and minimize hideous ones.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Re: Using RSS to replace social media

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Post by dang »

the_third_wave wrote: post #10
Kaze404 wrote: post #5

It's fascinating to me that even in a post for something as simple and mundane as RSS feeds somehow Luke Smith still manages to sprinkle in some of his disgusting alt-right vocabulary. I have to respect the grift.

I read the page and did not find anything worth labelling " disgusting alt-right vocabulary ". Either put up or shut up with the " disgusting alt-right vocabulary " nonsense. This type of accusation without examples and explanations just why it is " disgusting " and " alt-right " only serves to poison the well from which ideas are drawn, it serves no good purpose. So, show us some examples of that disgusting vocabula…

Please don't take HN threads further into ideological flamewar. It's not what this site is for, and we ban accounts that do it. Specifically, when an account is using HN primarily for ideological battle, we ban it, regardless of which ideology it's battling for—we have to, because it's destructive of what this site is supposed to exist for.

Your account has been veering back into this territory quite noticeably, and if you keep it up we're going to have to ban you again. If you'd please review the guidelines and stick to the rules from now on, we'd appreciate it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: Using RSS to replace social media

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Post by hopesthoughts »

sys_64738 wrote: post #37

Twitter is especially good for RSS as you can see almost all 140 chars in a single line and see all the recents tweets for the twitter account. I've no interest in comments in twitter. With Reddit you can subscribe to RSS feeds of subreddits and see the new topics. Click through to reddit if you want to engage. It has its uses and frankly it's my method for info consumption. If something doesn't have an RSS interface…

I have a whole bunch of Subreddits in my RSS reader.

Re: Using RSS to replace social media

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Post by hopesthoughts »

throw0101a wrote: post #40
sys_64738 wrote: post #37

Twitter is especially good for RSS as you can see almost all 140 chars in a single line and see all the recents tweets for the twitter account. I've no interest in comments in twitter. With Reddit you can subscribe to RSS feeds of subreddits and see the new topics. Click through to reddit if you want to engage. It has its uses and frankly it's my method for info consumption. If something doesn't have an RSS interface…

> Twitter is especially good for RSS as you can see almost all 140 chars in a single line and see all the recents tweets for the twitter account. Twitter used to have RSS (Atom?) until March 2013.

Now I use rss.app for that.

Re: Using RSS to replace social media

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Post by hopesthoughts »

smsm42 wrote: post #105

I hope RSS is finally old enough to be in fashion again, and people are starting to wake up to the fact that it's much superior to social media as a periodic content consumption venue. Social media is for posting cat pictures, wedding invitations and ancient jokes you heard for the first time yesterday. RSS is for creating curated periodic content streams. I've been using it since forever, and there's never been anyt…

I think it's been on an upswing for about a couple years now.

Re: Using RSS to replace social media

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Post by hopesthoughts »

yur3i__ wrote: post #2

The issue with these solutions is that they're only really one way, if I actually want to interact with anything posted to the RSS feed I have to navigate to the main website anyway, which renders the initial reading of them in a freer way pretty pointless.

I use the RSS feed as a link stream anyway. I just open the links and I'm at the main site. If I want to post a comment, and nothing else stops me like CAPTCHA I'll do it.

Re: Using RSS to replace social media

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Post by hopesthoughts »

est wrote: post #13

Twitter with an RSS feed is a waste of crawling traffic. Suppose you follow 1k accounts, you have to subscribe 1k RSS. What a waste. Twitter's core functionality was based on how to aggregate all 1k updates into one feed.

I mainly subscribe to sites that don't have RSS via Twitter. Or sites that the generator couldn't create a feed from.

Re: Using RSS to replace social media

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Post by hopesthoughts »

jamietanna wrote: post #118
est wrote: post #13

Twitter with an RSS feed is a waste of crawling traffic. Suppose you follow 1k accounts, you have to subscribe 1k RSS. What a waste. Twitter's core functionality was based on how to aggregate all 1k updates into one feed.

There's a tool built by friends in the IndieWeb community called https://granary.io that allows you to produce a single RSS feed for lots of handy things - like your full feed, specific lists, or specific people!

This is something epic! It would be nice if I could filter out images though, like I just want the links from my timeline.
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