I use https://theoldreader.com/ it's been reliable and trouble free since the death of google reader.
I even use it to catch popular hacker news stories: hnrss.org/newest?points=150
I ditched the algorithm for RSS
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Re: I ditched the algorithm for RSS
#182I use https://theoldreader.com/ it's been reliable and trouble free since the death of google reader. I even use it to catch popular hacker news stories: hnrss.org/newest?points=150
First time hearing about it, looks good but first impressions are mixed.
- Start out subscribed to spam, first messages are
- `A “Tiny Old Cave” Kitchen Got a $1,221 Makeover That “Feels 10 Times Cozier”`
- `My Mom Has Been Buying These Bath Towels for Years, and They're My Favorite, Too, They’re on sale!`
- Translations are mixed up in the interface. Some words German `Registrieren`, some English once you go to the next page `Sign Up`
- `Sponsorship opportunities are now available. Learn more.` after few minutes.
I understand the need for ads in a free tier, but also it's RSS, cmon. The tech cost can't be that high to justify this level persistent in your face.
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#183I made my blog software support all feed types back in the day:
http://sprout.rupy.se/feed?rss
http://sprout.rupy.se/feed?atom
http://sprout.rupy.se/feed?json
http://sprout.rupy.se/feed (my own :P)
It's open-source: http://github.com/tinspin/sprout
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#184Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The biggest cost of RSS feed items as a consumer is figuring out whether something is worth reading. A lot of feeds these days don't provide anything useful in the body to make a determination on this, and others just dump the entire contents in the body, which means you're wasting a bunch of time reading N% of something until you realize you're not interested in it and it can be skipped. I think a big problem with…
The post proposes a solution to the overload of subscribing to subreddits by subscribing to a search for only the top posts from the subreddit.
I don't use reddit, so I'm probably missing something, but subscribing to only the 'best' posts doesn't sound like a way to find the 'hidden gems', it sounds more like a way to subscribe to whatever the users of the subreddit have collectively voted up that particular day.
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#185I love RSS. I use RSS daily. I use link-aggregation websites like HN to find interesting authors and subscribe to any RSS feeds that they have. Highlights from my reader sync automatically into my Obsidian vault. It's great. But I know I, and everyone else posting in this thread, are in the minority. It's clear that most people prefer algorithmic drip in a walled garden. There's a reason everyone flocks to those plat…
I think the walled garden is a flawed metaphor. I would argue for Twitter over a spotty collection of RSS feeds just because there's ironically more of a democratic aspect -- anyone can start tweeting about whatever. They can go viral and disappear, they can gradually build an audience, etc. They can interact with followers or reply guys or stay aloof; they can recommend content and become a mini content aggregator i…
A lot of people don’t like the pay to play aspects of Twitter. EM also boosts his own tweets which is the ultimate pay to play.
If you’re talking about the “following” feed that is also an “algorithm” albeit a simple one. But with injected ads it seems strictly worse than RSS.
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#186My 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…
There still exist a couple of nitter instances which provide RSS feeds for X.
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#187Speaking of algorithms definitely a far fetched idea if there was a LLM esque tool trained on all digital data produced by humans since computers were a thing and had root level access to all devices on the planet could it alter shuffling algorithms even on self hosted stuff to display items a specific way?
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#188Has anyone been able to figure out how to generate RSS feeds for Nextdoor?
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#189Re: I ditched the algorithm for RSS
#190Ditch the algorithm by using or building a custom feed in BlueSky. I'm interested in networking stuff so I built a BlueSky feed that anyone can use. https://bsky.app/profile/coverfire.com/feed/networking
When BlueSky was being designed I was involved in the developer discussions and continually urged them to make simple RSS be the least common denominator of their entire spec, and build on top of RSS rather than trying to replace RSS. They listened to a lot of what I said, including my "Repository" concept where every user basically has a big repository of IPFS content addressable elements, and incorporated that into…
Mastodon supports RSS.