The sites I followed have become bookmarks :(
I Still Use RSS
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#52I was an early user of rss and blogged for years, then got sucked into social media like everyone else. Recently I've ditched that and got back into writing a bit and using Reeder / Feedly again. It is such a pleasure! Really just echoing this article, but to be able to do this at my pace and with my preferences as to what I choose to focus on or skim over without some bottom-feeding algorithm choosing for me is a really welcome breath of fresh air. I really hope there's a resurgence, the mode of reading presented by rss is so much more user and life focused...
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#53One really neat feature of RSS is that users don't have to provide email addresses or visit the site (be tracked) to see the material.
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#54RSS is awesome! I never got the hang of using a read-application, instead I use rss2email to get copies of posts delivered to my inbox. There are a few different tools for getting the feeds to email, my own is a pretty simple golang application I run in a docker-container: https://github.com/skx/rss2email/
I would actually like the opposite of this. Having newsletters and other such “no-reply” emails go directly to an RSS feed.
I could almost imagine running a small service that presented the contents of an IMAP folder as a feed, but I can't imagine actually using such a thing!
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#55I've mentioned this on HN before, one pattern I've noticed is a lot of sites tend to truncate their RSS feed so you have to click through to see the full article etc. This is mostly OK but kinda frustrating, as in the before-covid times I used to ride the London Underground a lot where no celluar signal is available in the tunnels - so my offline RSS reader would be useless. So I wrote a little web service accepts an…
I'd like that. This pattern you mention bugs me.
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#56I've mentioned this on HN before, one pattern I've noticed is a lot of sites tend to truncate their RSS feed so you have to click through to see the full article etc. This is mostly OK but kinda frustrating, as in the before-covid times I used to ride the London Underground a lot where no celluar signal is available in the tunnels - so my offline RSS reader would be useless. So I wrote a little web service accepts an…
Hugo, and other static site generators that support RSS, can easily be modified to provide the full content.
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#57I kind of think everyone recommending their favorite rss reader is missing the mark. During the google reader days, rss was provided by everyone, and blogging-like publication was how you did things. The internet just isn’t like that anymore and no matter how nice your reader is that’s not how things are published.
Common CMSs continue to automatically generate RSS. Even if the website no longer advertises its RSS overtly, the RSS feed is there in the HTML source if you look for it. Yes, there are some sites out there without RSS, but for the vast majority of sites I’m interested in following, an RSS field remains available.
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#58Just reached this HN entry via my self hosted tiny tiny RSS. Long live RSS! Fortunately RSS took off enough before social networks, so that many website still more or less support it.
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
As far as I can tell, because RSS requires the cooperation of actors who have no incentive to cooperate. If I use an RSS reader to support content, then it is under my control when I read it, if I read it, and what format to read it under. I can view the content however I'd like, and no tracking is there. All of these are unambiguously good things for me, and are anathema for the advertising industry. I cannot use RS…
I'm perfectly happy just getting headlines with links, which seems most common these days, at least for what I subscribe to. It requires I go to their site to get the content where they can (try to) shove anything they want in my face and run whatever trackers they normally do.
Absolutely the same, and that's how I usually use RSS feed a anyways, as a source of headlines. Even there, though, it means that my choice of which articles to read isn't influenced by their snazzy new (and slow) layouts, their eye-catching (and emotionally jarring) images. It means that my daily habit is to check my RSS reader, rather than refreshing their site to see if anything has been posted.
With a limited amount of attention, even just exposing the headlines through RSS means that it is more my choice where to distribute my attention, rather than having my attention be drawn elsewhere through dark patterns and marketing tricks.
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#60I recently got back into RSS.
I am running https://miniflux.app/ on one of my boxes and its been great.
Typically, most days I keep on top of my news/interest in close to real time but there are days where this doesnt happy, just too busy.
So I jump into miniflux which is pulling in news and I can quickly in a few minutes scroll and get a good feel for what's going on, what I have missed and explore further anything interesting.