Couldn't there be a proxy that generates an RSS feed, like Twitter to RSS feed or Facebook to RSS Feed
“We removed the RSS feed since this technology became obsolete”
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#142News aggregators are my main business since 2001 and all I can say is that reports of the death of RSS have been greatly exaggerated. Recently launched https://biztoc.com where 75% is still RSS, the rest being APIs and custom scraping. Yes, support is not increasing but drops among established sites are very rare. (Coindesk most recently)
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#143Recently added RSS/Atom/JSON feeds to my blog: https://blog.kronis.dev/ Honestly, i largely agree with the claim that RSS is dying. For example, on Windows i wanted to find a decent RSS reader to use, since recently coming to like the technology myself for consumption of news (since all of the sudden everything can just be boring text, as opposed to annoying and attention catching images, styling etc., allowing em to…
Feedbro (a browser extension) might be another option for you to consider[1].
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#144I hate to admit it, but I kinda just... stopped looking at my RSS feeds about a year ago. It wasn't intentional, it just kinda happened? I was (am?) paying for Feedly and then I used a separate app on my phone to consume it (Hated the Feedly UI and I wanted the app I have been using since google reader). But I costantly found myself with a huge number of unread feeds. They became unmanageable. I would look at headlin…
That's why I like websites that offer RSS feeds by tags, author, search queries, threads, etc. Also, there are news readers that offer different types of filtering as well. Personally, I use newsboat, though it's a CLI program, so probably not suitable for everyone.
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#145The whole (non-Spotify, ugh) podcast ecosystem would like a word about RSS being obsolete. Patreon (and to a greater extent, the podcasters I support) keep making real money out of me and millions of others every month for personalised RSS feeds for content. That RSS feed is the delivery vehicle. It's very reliable, I can use it in any app, much good, so benefit, wow.
Most of the listeners of podcasts have moved on to technologies that do not rely on RSS. RSS was like podcasting 1.0. Now people consume podcasts on integrated, centralized platforms.
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#146RSS is by far the best and easiest way to keep up with sources you want to follow. Using RSS to get updates from curated Twitter lists is the only way to just get updates from accounts you want to follow on Twitter and maintain your sanity. I recommend NetNewsWire.
Re: “We removed the RSS feed since this technology became obsolete”
#147Recently added RSS/Atom/JSON feeds to my blog: https://blog.kronis.dev/ Honestly, i largely agree with the claim that RSS is dying. For example, on Windows i wanted to find a decent RSS reader to use, since recently coming to like the technology myself for consumption of news (since all of the sudden everything can just be boring text, as opposed to annoying and attention catching images, styling etc., allowing em to…
> not really an option for me, since i want downloadable software, which is also why i use Thunderbird instead of web mail clients
> How is RSS supposed to survive if there is no good software for it out there?
There is good software for it out there. Most people don't want to use/run/download/install local software, they'd prefer an API client on their device and a service that does the heavy lifting for them.
I don't like that model either, but most people do, and they've chosen it, for better or worse. I don't think that the claim that there's no good software out there is a valid one - it's just software that you personally have disqualified. SaaS is still software, and much of it is very high quality. You just don't get to run or modify it.
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#148Reading this form an RSS reader!
Any interesting products using RSS? Maybe a monetized feed? gated substack's like feed?
Sadly, I don't know of any solution using RSS other than news feeds.
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#149RSS is obsolete because it does not enable tracking and advertisements.
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#150This hurts. RSS is the only way I know, without having to scrap things by hand, to get an aggregate of "news/articles" from the sites and blogs I follow, and I consider to be of good quality. I prefer to filter my information like this, instead of having to rely on some algorithm, or endlessly scrolling in a "social medial wall" full or clickbait articles, immortal/vintage memes or exuberant rants. If RSS dies, what…
> If RSS dies, what is the alternative then? I understand that technically speaking it's not a good solution, but let's have something else before killing this. Instead of focusing on a technology, let's focus on a problem. This is where users and potential users of RSS have a communication problem with publishers of content. It used to be that the masses consumed RSS feeds. So, you could have metrics on that. But, t…
RSS is very much alive in the podcast world.