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Re: I ditched the algorithm for RSS

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Post by throwawayq3423 »

acidburnNSA wrote: post #166
Beijinger wrote: post #152

My buddy will soon offer an RSS reader. I will post it here. Yes, you can create an RSS feed from a Youtube Channel. You can can create an RSS feed from Reddit. You can't to my best knowledge create an RSS feed anymore from Twitter Newsletter to RSS: https://kill-the-newsletter.com/ More stuff: Blogs & RSS https://rssfeedasap.com/ https://code.rosaelefanten.org/rssparser.lisp/dir?ci=tip This one you have to pay. I am…

Rsshub can give you a RSS feed for Twitter but you have to give it a web session cookie which kinda freaks me out and probably violates the current TOS.

I've always described (the old) Twitter as an RSS feed but for people, which I loved. Is there a way to recreate this without all the slop?

Re: I ditched the algorithm for RSS

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Post by sneak »

netghost wrote: post #87

The one thing that kills me is the number of "modern" blogs/sites that don't offer rss or atom is really frustrating. If I really like your site, please let me be an engaged reader and let me know when you have something valuable to say again! I've even resorted to adding features in my personal feedreader to seek out common feed locations or APIs that common blogging tools leave on mostly unnoticed.

I regularly get emails from people asking where my RSS feed is on my site (or why I don’t have one) when every page on it has the link tags in the header that allow it to be autodiscovered.

Re: I ditched the algorithm for RSS

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Post by Beijinger »

throwawayq3423 wrote: post #171
acidburnNSA wrote: post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Rsshub can give you a RSS feed for Twitter but you have to give it a web session cookie which kinda freaks me out and probably violates the current TOS.

I've always described (the old) Twitter as an RSS feed but for people, which I loved. Is there a way to recreate this without all the slop?

I used RSS bridge but AFAIK is has not been working a long time.

Maybe is does but looks complicated: https://rss-bridge.github.io/rss-bridge/Bridge_Specific/Twit...

Re: I ditched the algorithm for RSS

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Post by acidburnNSA »

throwawayq3423 wrote: post #171
acidburnNSA wrote: post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Rsshub can give you a RSS feed for Twitter but you have to give it a web session cookie which kinda freaks me out and probably violates the current TOS.

I've always described (the old) Twitter as an RSS feed but for people, which I loved. Is there a way to recreate this without all the slop?

Here are the instructions if you want to try RSSHub. You have to self-host it somewhere to really send in the authorization config

https://docs.rsshub.app/routes/social-media#x-twitter

Re: I ditched the algorithm for RSS

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Post by EvanAnderson »

bluGill wrote: post #100

A good algorithm is a good thing. However what a good algorithm is for me is often different from what it is for those who maintain them. Outrage gets attention and sometimes it is needed, but there is a level of too much, and also a lot of outrage unfairly represents the issues and so it makes me mad even though if I understood the details I wouldn't be mad just concerned. I want an algorithm that surfaces things of…

I'd like to see an RSS item-level recommendation / discovery algorithm driven by recommendations made by a cohort of people who have similar likes to me. I wish there was a standards-based to publish a stream of my "likes" from my feed reader, and to "consume" the "likes" of others. When I add somebody's blog to my feed reader I'd expect it to pick up their "likes" (much like how people used to have a "blog roll" on their own site) and begin to consume the "feeds" from the sites they "like". It reminds me a bit of PHP's "web of trust".

Hacker News, arguably, functions in this capacity for me now. The cohort is the entire population (since we all see the same item rankings), though.

Re: I ditched the algorithm for RSS

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Post by sltkr »

yakshaving_jgt wrote: post #93
pluc wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are describing Postbacks: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postback

I don't think this Wikipedia page is describing the thing you think it is. Maybe it's the wrong link?

He's probably thinking about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pingback

Re: I ditched the algorithm for RSS

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Post by pyromaker »

I've recently launched Mashups.io - my own Yahoo Pipes tool.

https://www.mashups.io

And using the tool, I've been filtering, changing and tweaking various RSS feeds along the way.

I absolutely love RSS and absolutely loved Yahoo Pipes. For me, that got me into mashing up stuff on the web.

For devs, RSS feeds also provide a very easy way to source data. No need to get API keys and tokens, it gives you real life dataset immediately and easily. And from there, you can create tools.

Re: I ditched the algorithm for RSS

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Post by spintin »

pyromaker wrote: post #177

I've recently launched Mashups.io - my own Yahoo Pipes tool. https://www.mashups.io And using the tool, I've been filtering, changing and tweaking various RSS feeds along the way. I absolutely love RSS and absolutely loved Yahoo Pipes. For me, that got me into mashing up stuff on the web. For devs, RSS feeds also provide a very easy way to source data. No need to get API keys and tokens, it gives you real life datase…

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Re: I ditched the algorithm for RSS

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Post by golergka »

Beijinger wrote: post #152

My buddy will soon offer an RSS reader. I will post it here. Yes, you can create an RSS feed from a Youtube Channel. You can can create an RSS feed from Reddit. You can't to my best knowledge create an RSS feed anymore from Twitter Newsletter to RSS: https://kill-the-newsletter.com/ More stuff: Blogs & RSS https://rssfeedasap.com/ https://code.rosaelefanten.org/rssparser.lisp/dir?ci=tip This one you have to pay. I am…

I'm building a web app which would extract blogs and their RSS feeds from all HN stories you've commented, upvoted or added to favorites – so that you could easily extract exactly the content you want. I plan on expanding it to handle content you've interacted from other social networks too.

Re: I ditched the algorithm for RSS

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Post by 8organicbits »

bluGill wrote: post #100

A good algorithm is a good thing. However what a good algorithm is for me is often different from what it is for those who maintain them. Outrage gets attention and sometimes it is needed, but there is a level of too much, and also a lot of outrage unfairly represents the issues and so it makes me mad even though if I understood the details I wouldn't be mad just concerned. I want an algorithm that surfaces things of…

You should read about OPML blogrolls [1], they are gaining traction in this space. Personally, I like the idea of manually exploring recommendations, so I built a browsable index [2]. But you can crawl the these as well and build all sorts of recommendations engines.

[1] https://opml.org/blogroll.opml

[2] https://alexsci.com/rss-blogroll-network/discover/feed-c550c...

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