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Use RSS for privacy and efficiency (2021)

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Re: Use RSS for privacy and efficiency (2021)

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Post by jordemort »

diordiderot wrote: post #32

I'm kind of a JSON maximalist because I find it really simple and haven't put too much thought into it. I'd also like to shout out https://www.jsonfeed.org/ https://jsonresume.org/ https://tomcritchlow.com/2020/04/15/library-json/ https://geojson.org/ It'd be pretty cool to have an ecosystem where you could ``` $ packagemanger init my-site password $ hostOfChoice deploy ``` Go to the url, auth yourself, then have a l…

I'm a structured data maximalist so in addition to RSS and Atom, I implemented Schema.org metadata on my blog for GoogleBot, and I implemented JSON Feed and h-feed/h-entry markup, even though I've never seen anything that actually uses JSON Feed out in the wild. I'd be interested if there's anyone out there that's actually using these sorts of feeds.

Re: Use RSS for privacy and efficiency (2021)

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Post by kornhole »

I moved all my feeds to Nextcloud News which is just one of a dozen or so add-ons I setup on my Nextcloud server. The official free mobile app is awesome, and Nextcloud syncs with just about any feed reader.

My only hesitation about Nextcloud is that I don't like to put too many eggs in one basket. It is best in class for cloud services and now my most critical installation. Their innovation and drive as a company is impressive probably because they have real values that align with their people.

Re: Use RSS for privacy and efficiency (2021)

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Post by john-tells-all »

jeffgreco wrote: post #19

I make heavy use of https://kill-the-newsletter.com/ to convert e-mail newsletters into RSS feeds -- IMO the RSS reader context is way better than an email inbox for consuming newslettery content.

that's amazing! Subscribing now.

I'd love to find a "web2rss" for laggards that don't provide their own feeds :)

Re: Use RSS for privacy and efficiency (2021)

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Post by cxr »

account-5 wrote: post #60

I love RSS/atom feeds. One thing I'm wondering though, RSS is is XML based. Most things are/have moved to JSON (RPC really more than REST). My question is why is XML still good for this use case? Genuinely interested.

Little-known trick:

You can add an `xml-stylesheet` processing instruction at the top of your XML-based feed format to transform it via XSLT into HTML. When viewed in a Web browser, it will look like an ordinary Web page, but in reality it's actually RSS/Atom consumable by anyone's feed reader. Nobody has to hunt for the URL to the RSS/Atom feed, because the URL of the top-level post index for your blog is the URL to the RSS/Atom feed. You also don't have to set up your static site generator to generate a separate feed file. Neat!

Can't do that with JSON.

Re: Use RSS for privacy and efficiency (2021)

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Post by simonw »

dont__panic wrote: post #44
nazgulsenpai wrote: post #9

Feeder is a great GPL RSS reader for Android. Save you some time fumbling through the Google Play cess pool. Not affiliated just a happy user. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.nononsenseapps.feeder/ https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nononsense...

For iOS folks, I can't recommend NetNewsWire more. I pair NNW on my phone and laptop with Fresh.RSS running on my raspberry pi for most of my news and blog feeds these days. HN nerds might remember that NNW is very fast, even by native macOS standards: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23286362 If you're feeling fatigued by algorithmic nonsense these days, you should seriously give RSS a try.

+1 for this: the NetNewsWire Mac and iPhone combo, which syncs state using iCloud, is exactly the right feed reader solution for me. Just works.

Re: Use RSS for privacy and efficiency (2021)

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Post by superkuh »

RadiozRadioz wrote: post #105
superkuh wrote: post #100

HN is a great place to gather RSS feeds. Any time there's an interesting site I always look for them. These days I usually see articles that appear on the HN front page a day or so before they hit HN. But HN isn't the only place I practice this. Back in the 2010s it was obvious reddit was going under so I did the same there till 2015. I have 1000+ RSS feeds now and very little need for news aggregators on the day to…

I do this too, but only started a few days ago. That's a lot of feeds you've collected, would you be open to sharing a list of them?

Sure. Here is the opml file and an HTML listing of the feed URLs and their website URL/name organized by categories: http://a.superkuh.com/feeds9.html and http://a.superkuh.com/2022-11-04-feedlist.opml This is my script to convert .opml to html unordered list, http://superkuh.com/regexopmltohtml.pl.txt

Most HN sourced feeds are in the "Computing but not spammy" category.

The first load of the big opml into QuiteRSS (if you try it) might take a while. After that it will be faster. I suggest enabling the "load database to ram" option in QuiteRSS configuration.

Re: Use RSS for privacy and efficiency (2021)

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Post by bgro »

Can anybody recommend a RSS program that works on Windows that isn't terrible? Or that literally does the minimum requirement of works?

I don't know what happened, but when I tried to find something earlier this year, it looked like there was nothing that was a simple RSS without extra bloat that wasn't abandonware and that actually literally worked.

Every time I ask this, 90% of the answers just say use X Android app. Or I have to compile it myself from scratch with broken directions (and then find out it has been broken for years). Or it's like a docker image (thus requiring docker) or otherwise requires installing multiple gigabytes of random new languages.

Re: Use RSS for privacy and efficiency (2021)

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Post by ylk »

bgro wrote: post #128

Can anybody recommend a RSS program that works on Windows that isn't terrible? Or that literally does the minimum requirement of works? I don't know what happened, but when I tried to find something earlier this year, it looked like there was nothing that was a simple RSS without extra bloat that wasn't abandonware and that actually literally worked. Every time I ask this, 90% of the answers just say use X Android ap…

Thunderbird includes an RSS client

Re: Use RSS for privacy and efficiency (2021)

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Post by lolinder »

nazgulsenpai wrote: post #9

Feeder is a great GPL RSS reader for Android. Save you some time fumbling through the Google Play cess pool. Not affiliated just a happy user. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.nononsenseapps.feeder/ https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nononsense...

I tried using a local-only RSS reader after ditching Feedly, but I found myself missing the ability to easily switch between devices.

I ended up setting up a FreshRSS[0] instance which I've been quite happy with so far. It provides the Google Reader API, which is still supported by a lot of FOSS mobile RSS readers (I picked Readrops[1]).

[0] https://www.freshrss.org/

[1] https://github.com/readrops/Readrops

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