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Re: Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere

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Post by cromka »

frogulis wrote: post #100
susam wrote: post #37

Also, don't forget to set up an RSS or Atom feed for your website. Contrary to the recurring claim that RSS is dead, most of the traffic to my website still comes from RSS feeds, even in 2̶0̶2̶5̶ 2026! In fact, one of my silly little games became moderately popular because someone found it in my RSS feed and shared it on HN. [1] From the referer (sic) data in my web server logs (which is not completely reliable but s…

Is there any reason today to use RSS over Atom? Atom sounds like it has all the advantages, except maybe compatibility with some old or stubborn clients?

People still refer to all these as RSS, even if Atom is actually in use.

Re: Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere

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Post by rambambram »

rednafi wrote: post #93
ModernMech wrote: post #88

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With the lack of styling, I'm sorry to say I didn't notice the RSS icon at first at all. Adding the typical orange background to the icon would fix that.

Fair criticism. I'm trying to find a way to present that without being obnoxious.

I think you did just fine. The orange can be very obnoxious indeed, and just the icon is more than enough for people actually looking for it.

PS: I found out I was already subscribed to your feed.

Re: Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere

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Post by rsolva »

pastel8739 wrote: post #129
Fiveplus wrote: post #112

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…

I wish there was a way to plug in Fedi hosting with a static site generator, but iirc the protocol currently doesn’t allow that

For basic functionality, it is possible! https://paul.kinlan.me/adding-activity-pub-to-your-static-si...

Re: Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere

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Post by bnlxbnlx »

fuzztester wrote: post #153
ungreased0675 wrote: post #76

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Do you have a recommended iOS RSS feed reader?

Same question, but for Android and desktop / laptop too. Never used RSS much before, hardly, in fact, I don't know why, even though I first knew about it many years ago, but after reading this thread, I want to.

desktop only: https://fraidyc.at/

Re: Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere

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Post by dewey »

foxfired wrote: post #31
NetOpWibby wrote: post #25

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Hell yeah! Just subscribed. I want to add analytics to my blog too, haven't had any on my sites for about a decade.

Just an FYI, the data collected to make those conclusion was through the server log (Apache2 in my case). So if you run your own server or VPS, you already have this information.

If you want to count every search engine bot, AI crawler, vulnerability scanner as users then that works, but these days it's basically useless to use these web server logs.

Re: Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere

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Post by dewey »

acessoproibido wrote: post #28
NetOpWibby wrote: post #25

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Hell yeah! Just subscribed. I want to add analytics to my blog too, haven't had any on my sites for about a decade.

Maybe a dumb question but why? Im a firm believer that data collected that doesnt have a clear action associated with it is meaningless - and i couldnt think of an action i would take if my traffic goes up or down on my personal blog - but tbh i mainly blog for myself not really to build an audience, so our objectives might differ

Same reason why people have personal projects and share them on GitHub, it's fun to see people using / starring / interacting with your project / blog.

Re: Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere

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Post by jonasced »

alabut wrote: post #128
echelon wrote: post #23

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If we had stuck with standard semantic web microformats, RSS/Atom syndication, FOAF-ish graphs, URIs for identity but also anonymous pubkey identities with reputation graphs - we could have built an entirely distributed social media graph that worked like email. But alas, Facebook pushed forward too fast to counter. There's still a chance, but the software needs to focus on simplicity and ease of use. Publishing blob…

I wish that were true but if ease of use is all that mattered, then micro.blog and other “Indieweb in a box” services would be as big as Bluesky, or maybe even at least as big as Mastodon. The truth is that we’re social creatures and for social products, that means hanging out where other friends are already hanging out. It’s my personal thesis that no matter how matter how much we lower the bar to participate in the…

It's fine to be small, but we can still work on lowering the bar further and promoting the good parts.

Then, if there is a viable alternative to big social media, my thesis is that there might come a day when a critical mass has been fed up and finds a viable alternative that's still beautiful but no longer small.

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