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Re: RSS Is Better Than Twitter

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Post by dmarusic16 »

burtonator wrote: post #68
knight17 wrote: post #3

I just wish Mozilla introduce subscribing to RSS as a first class feature in Firefox. If they can introduce and integrate Pocket, I think an open technology like RSS deserves a fair chance. But they'd need to invest a little bit to make it easy to subscribe—similar to following on Twitter/Instagram or Liking pages on Facebook—to receive site updates. Having to find and enter byzantine URLs is not the way to go althou…

I'm considering integrating RSS with Polar: https://getpolarized.io/ Ton on my plate now trying to focus on shipping mobile and a few other features too. I like the idea of Polar having data sources that are high quality and that the user can just easily subscribe to specific PDFs, research, or high quality content feeds. We're also going to add social content discovery which is sort of like a Twitter feed but just p…

Polar looks great! Just the kind of service I’m looking for. (Hope an iPad/tablet version is in the offing alongside mobile.)

Re: RSS Is Better Than Twitter

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Post by 1337shadow »

dguo wrote: post #11
knight17 wrote: post #3

I just wish Mozilla introduce subscribing to RSS as a first class feature in Firefox. If they can introduce and integrate Pocket, I think an open technology like RSS deserves a fair chance. But they'd need to invest a little bit to make it easy to subscribe—similar to following on Twitter/Instagram or Liking pages on Facebook—to receive site updates. Having to find and enter byzantine URLs is not the way to go althou…

Firefox used to have built-in RSS support, but it was removed in Firefox 64: https://www.zdnet.com/article/end-nears-for-rss-firefox-64-t...

Why did Mozilla not propose a new version of RSS then ?

Re: RSS Is Better Than Twitter

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Post by JetSpiegel »

jayalpha wrote: post #97

I love RSS feeds. You can convert Twitter to RSS: http://twitrss.me Websites that don't have RSS: https://feedity.com/ Email to RSS: https://zapier.com Hackernews RSS: http://hnrss.org/newest?points=300 You can even use RSS for finding a job: https://www.indeed.ca/jobs?q=millwright&l=Toronto,+ON&sort=d...

Instead of sending your Twitter followers to a random cloud service (and getting it rate-limited), run your own RSS-Bridge to generate RSS from sites that don't have them, like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram. If you use it yourself and some friends, rate limiting is not a problem.

https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge/

For HN, you can run that very same codebase from https://hnrss.org: https://github.com/edavis/go-hnrss

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Post by bobcostas55 »

burtonator wrote: post #68
knight17 wrote: post #3

I just wish Mozilla introduce subscribing to RSS as a first class feature in Firefox. If they can introduce and integrate Pocket, I think an open technology like RSS deserves a fair chance. But they'd need to invest a little bit to make it easy to subscribe—similar to following on Twitter/Instagram or Liking pages on Facebook—to receive site updates. Having to find and enter byzantine URLs is not the way to go althou…

I'm considering integrating RSS with Polar: https://getpolarized.io/ Ton on my plate now trying to focus on shipping mobile and a few other features too. I like the idea of Polar having data sources that are high quality and that the user can just easily subscribe to specific PDFs, research, or high quality content feeds. We're also going to add social content discovery which is sort of like a Twitter feed but just p…

Looks nice but why does it need 3rd party cookies to work?

Also, copy-pasting is broken:

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Also, expected keyboard shortcuts (eg hitting delete to delete a document) don't work.

Re: RSS Is Better Than Twitter

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Post by jeena »

fiddlerwoaroof wrote: post #65
knight17 wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Firefox had a way to display RSS/Atom feeds earlier which they removed, but it did not allow subscribing to them in any meaningful way other than live bookmarks.

I thought Firefox used to have a one click way to subscribe in your preferred reader back in the Google Reader days.

Yes that was possible and I always used it to subscribe to TTRSS. One day after an update I saw that they removed the button (which used https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator/r...) with which you could subscribe in Firefox that your custom TTRSS url should be added to the list off the ways to subscribe and I wrote a plugin to read it https://github.com/jeena/tt-rss-plugins/blob/master/jp_fxsub...

That worked for a short time until Firefox removed that API. Now I need to install this addon to be able to do it https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/awesome-rss/

It's basically impossible for people to find out how to subscribe to a RSS feed nowadays.

Re: RSS Is Better Than Twitter

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Post by mastrsushi »

I did use RSS through Google Reader briefly back in 2009. Then I found out about Twitter, and immediately thought of it as a modern response. Unifying the web's news feeds into one technology was such an obvious solution, its emergence was unavoidable, no matter what way it came. Web platforms always had some form of portal, blog publishing service, general discussion board, or better yet a single tap service where everything anyone wants to know, or at least thinks they do is encapsulated.

What these older services failed to capture that made Twitter and other "social" media sites so popular is the "social" aspect. The automated synchronized posting structure that RSS provides may be more efficient than user-driven Twitter. But with Twitters' intuition, popularity, and ability to communicate within that vast user space is enough to outweigh any of RSS's technological advancements. RSS always seemed like a technology for techies, Twitter brought the feed to laymen.

Re: RSS Is Better Than Twitter

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Post by OrgNet »

RSS is great and I use RSS to read some parts of Twitter but you can't really compare the two (at least not in its current form) but it could be extended to allow feedback, etc...

Re: RSS Is Better Than Twitter

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Post by mark_l_watson »

addicted wrote: post #112

But RSS doesn’t replace Twitter. As much as the Twitterati May argue they need to be on Twitter to be informed, the reality is that the need Twitter fills is the need to broadcast your own views all over the world. A blog post, which requires a lot more effort, since it’s expected to be a little more substantial, may get 0 views, while a silly comment in response to a controversial topic on Twitter could easily get a…

Yup, I agree with you for some twitter accounts. I find myself often pruning who I follow on Twitter so much so that I then find I am mostly getting tech announcements of papers and conferences, release announcements, etc.

Periodically, I start following more people, then the pruning cycle repeats.

I feel sometimes that I spend too much time on twitter and HN, and so I go on cycles for time spent per week there also. Really good to use a monitoring tool to let you know cumulatively how much time you spend a week on different media.

Re: RSS Is Better Than Twitter

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Post by erikrothoff »

alexmingoia wrote: post #53
Angostura wrote: post #41

Remember when Twitter offered RSS feeds? It made the service actually useful.

There’s a number of bridges from Twitter to RSS. I read Twitter in Feeder. See https://feeder.co/knowledge-base/rss-feed-creation/twitter-r...

Erik from Feeder here. Let me know if there's anything we can do to make the experience better! :D
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