RSS: there's nothing better

Post by hopesthoughts » Fri, Nov 17, 2017, 8:01 PM UTC

Arnt wrote: post #48

leejo wrote: post #44

I wrote about this recently[1]. The "problem" with RSS, that essentially lead to it falling out of favour, is that it is pure consumption, not interaction. You can't "like" an update that comes to you via RSS, nor comment, nor easily share. It's difficult for sites to monetise it, or track, or promote their own agenda. It's not "social" and since every other site these days needs to be social, whether through aforeme…

What you try to say is (I think): RSS is better because it's totally foreign to clickbait. The goals sites try to reach using clickbait are goals not helped by RSS. Right? RSS is badly suited as a vector for virally driven waves of outrage. "Let's call it an accidental feature" as lwall once wrote.

Post by hopesthoughts » Fri, Nov 17, 2017, 8:20 PM UTC

icebraining wrote: post #91

jakub_g wrote: post #79

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I stopped using RSS circa 2010 since RSS produces just too much content (well at least my reader did, as it was not archiving stuff until read, just like an email inbox). I was reading my RSS feeds almost as a full-time job and the unread count was only going up and up :) TBH, it's a bit like this now for me with HN and Twitter even without RSS. "This looks interesting... (click)(open in new tab)". One week later: 30…

So what if the unread counts go up? I have a feed with 543 unread items, and many others with 100+. Sometimes I scan the titles of the latest dozens of items, then mark all as read. For me, that's the advantage of RSS over Twitter: your unread counts are separate for each feed, so that blog that rarely updates but is always worthwhile to read doesn't get lost in the pile of cheap content.

Post by degradas » Sun, Nov 19, 2017, 4:30 PM UTC

tzahola wrote: post #219

SteveMoody73 wrote: post #161

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Just looked and there's an add content option in the bottom left corner that if you click on that and select Publications and Blogs gives you an option to add a URL. I've not really seen any sponsored content other than the occasional banner message up the top which is easily dismissed. edit: I have by default feedly set to my "all" feed and in that respect it works much like google reader used to.

I’m using the Feedly iOS app. I went to “Add content”, and it opened a sidebar with a searchbox which supposedly lets you “search” for content by “title, URL or #topic”. I’ve entered the URL of the archive.org feed ( http://archive.org/services/collection-rss.php ) and it says: “No sources found. If you are looking for a specific site, please enter the full URL.”