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Re: Blog Feeds

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Post by esseph »

bwilliams wrote: post #3

> The best part about blog feeds? It's just an idea. There's no central authority. There's no platform. I think this is blessing _and_ a curse. I had an idea that I built a while back that centralizes RSS feeds so you get the centralized benefits of social media while authors can own and control their own content. If anyone's curious, I built it out here: https://onread.io but I never had the time to really share it…

I'd argue RSS more relevant and mostly void of the abuse of other systems and platforms.

The social component is exactly the problem for many.

Re: Blog Feeds

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Post by esseph »

pedalpete wrote: post #14

The problem with blog feeds is the action required by the user to decide what blogs to follow, and then the desire to go to a different app to read them. But this strikes me as a problem that can be solved, and potentially already has been. If I go to a newsreeder the first time, it's empty. I have to decide what to follow. If you can get me to add a few blogs of interest, you start understanding what I want to read.…

I'm just speaking for myself here...

The last thing I want is another service with an algorithm.

RSS by itself is devoid of that, which is an appealing feature.

Does everything have to be a fucking product?????

Re: Blog Feeds

#23

Post by esseph »

stared wrote: post #12

Though, it kind of works that you keep adding blogs and blogs, until it turns out that RSS feed is mess. Maybe no clickbaits or ads, but still density of posts I want to read goes down. Do you know any good solution, where there is collaborative filtering or RSS (bonus points for open, tweakable algorithm) + some AI with custom prompt to give me top recommendations? Something where I am in the charge of the algorithm…

This is like taking responsibility then claiming you don't really want it.

Re: Blog Feeds

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Post by ChrisArchitect »

What year was this written?

All for people doing their own sites/blogs. But social media is the RSS feed and has been for like 15 years. Short form posts that link to long form posts. Social posts that link to the content you've published wherever. And the reposting of other curated favorites is the extra feed portion. The change in recent years is ppl skipping the self-hosting/POS part of the POSSE and posting directly on the social media sites because they were convinced to do that and the social media sites were discouraging users from travelling off-site etc. We just need to get away from using social media sites as the hosts of our content and back to the POS part.

Re: Blog Feeds

#25

Post by [deleted] »

firefoxd wrote: post #16
kh_hk wrote: post #10

I write on my blog, but I am not sure who I am writing for. Which is fine, because in the end I write for myself. Years ago you would get comments, posts would get linked (remember pingbacks?). Maybe as time progressed I started writing more niche things that reach nobody, or maybe that web started disintegrating. Hope it comes back, but I will not hold my breath. I will keep posting though.

Some people have been following my blog for over 10 years. The only reason I know is because someone decided to email me on a random Tuesday. You'd be surprised what you find when you look through your logs.

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Re: Blog Feeds

#26

Post by _zeta »

I use my blog to mainly write about stuff I do that I really don't want to forget about, like interesting vulnerabilities I found or projects I want to share, reach is ~30k visits/month (still no idea how since I think it's kinda niche) but so far is working.

I consider it also a good way to force myself to keep thoughts in order and to do a recap on the activities I do that most of the time are very chaotic.

I would probably consider integrating messages also to receive feedbacks.

I use hugo with the backend hosted on GitHub Pages, so far is a pretty solid setup that requires minimal effort since I just wrote an action to build pages every time a commit is done on the main branch

In case you are interested: https://appsec.space

Re: Blog Feeds

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Post by not--felix »

stared wrote: post #12

Though, it kind of works that you keep adding blogs and blogs, until it turns out that RSS feed is mess. Maybe no clickbaits or ads, but still density of posts I want to read goes down. Do you know any good solution, where there is collaborative filtering or RSS (bonus points for open, tweakable algorithm) + some AI with custom prompt to give me top recommendations? Something where I am in the charge of the algorithm…

I am thiking of adding an algorithm to my reader, but I am still not sure how. For collaborative filtering you need a lot of user to have enough data on small niche blogs.

Re: Blog Feeds

#28

Post by not--felix »

I do not think RSS can replace social media, but we need more blogs where people just "reblog" thinks they liked, it would really help with discovering new feeds.

Re: Blog Feeds

#29

Post by m-hodges »

I don’t have any analytics or social trackers on my blog, so I usually don’t know if anyone is really reading it; but occasionally someone will email me in reaction to a post and that’s usually quite nice.

Re: Blog Feeds

#30

Post by nicbou »

m-hodges wrote: post #29

I don’t have any analytics or social trackers on my blog, so I usually don’t know if anyone is really reading it; but occasionally someone will email me in reaction to a post and that’s usually quite nice.

It's so nice and personal, unlike a social media notification. It feels like having a pen pal.
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