The RSS feed reader landscape • Hacker News Board

Re: The RSS feed reader landscape

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Post by BriggyDwiggs42 » Fri, Oct 10, 2025, 7:30 PM UTC

criddell wrote: post #186

BriggyDwiggs42 wrote: post #107

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>That tells you that's not what it's for. It would be like posting your resume on FB and LinkedIn and then pointing out that FB led to fewer job offers than LinkedIn. Different platforms, different purposes. Only insofar as the purpose of the platform is to generate ad revenue. The contents of the posts were semantically identical and they were made to the same platform; your example involves the same post to two dif…

> Only insofar as the purpose of the platform is to generate ad revenue. Well, yeah. I'm not surprised that they don't promote posts containing links to their competitors. I wonder what the outcome would have been if you had instead linked to Instagram or Threads? I would guess those have a smaller penalty.

Is your critique that it’s unsurprising? I agree, but the original comment was complaining about how this practice kills the feeling of older social platforms where you could share whatever with your friends.

Re: The RSS feed reader landscape

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Post by samtrack2019 » Fri, Oct 10, 2025, 7:56 PM UTC

happy freshrss user here, the mobile web interface is a bit annoying, readera is fine. but it's so fast compared to use other things... (hosted on a old rpi3)

Re: The RSS feed reader landscape

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Post by swyx » Sat, Oct 11, 2025, 1:13 AM UTC

MaxwellM wrote: post #199

swyx wrote: post #134

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> I credit the demise of Google Reader with a lot of the downfall of the Old Web. maybe you have causation wrong. social platforms were so effective they caused downfall of old web, and with it the demise of Google Reader

Google Reader was killed by Vic because it was the only "social" app at Google at the time. He wanted to grow their FB competitor (G+) and insisted on migrating users over from Reader to G+, which never happened. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vic_Gundotra#Career

lmao thanks. you would think you should spin up the next thing first and migrate over rather than kill then spin up

Re: The RSS feed reader landscape

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Post by glitchdout » Sun, Oct 12, 2025, 9:21 AM UTC

gregoriol wrote: post #159

Some very important criteria, more than the hosting itself, is if the feeds can be accessed from multiple devices (desktop, mobile, tablet, commandline?, ...)

Agreed. The list would be more useful if it included that.

Re: The RSS feed reader landscape

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Post by yakattak » Wed, Oct 15, 2025, 10:41 AM UTC

6510 wrote: post #45

yakattak wrote: post #16

I really hope sites continue their RSS feeds. It seems like less and less of them have them available or don’t care to keep them updated.

You can usually find a feed in google. Some people make feeds by crawling sites.

Yeah that’s true. I also built a couple feeds for some sites I use that have an API but no feed.

Re: The RSS feed reader landscape

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Post by glenstein » Thu, Oct 16, 2025, 4:25 PM UTC

nonethewiser wrote: post #197

glenstein wrote: post #181

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>I think at minimum you would want 1 left, 1 right, and 1 center. Probably a convo for a different place and time, but strong disagree here. Calibrating relative to political polarization is relativism, and I'm not a relativist.

Nor am I. I think we have a misunderstanding on the goal. My goal is to get a wide range of perspectives. How did you interpret the goal? Perhaps the widest range of topics? Most closely aligned editorial viewpoint?

I interpret the goal as being interested in truth. An approach to truth that identifies it with diversity of viewpoints is epistemological relativism. Instead you should look for things like strong journalistic practices and institutional track record.