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Re: Blog Feeds

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Post by simonjgreen »

geerlingguy wrote: post #47
re wrote: post #36

> The idea is to create another page on your blog that has all the RSS feeds you're subscribed to. By keeping this public and always up to date, someone can visit your page, find someone new and follow them. Perhaps that person also has a feeds page, and the cycle continues until there is a natural and organic network of people all sharing with each other. So if you have a blog, consider making a feeds page and shari…

And even better, there used to be a concept of "pingback", back before it was just abused by spammers, where you could connect blog posts together (the OG "react" medium) through a ping mechanism that was at least in Wordpress, not sure about other platforms. But I found a ton of great blogs just scanning through other people's blogrolls.

My recollection from that era is that sadly it was immediately abused

Re: Blog Feeds

#52

Post by colesantiago »

clueless wrote: post #7

if you think this will work, you haven't fully understood why the likes of twitter has become successful, i.e. centrally controlled collaborative filtering, amongst others aspect

Exactly.

You're more likely to get discovered if your content is on a centralised platform than a decentralised one.

RSS alone doesn't cut it and you cannot know if anyone is reading your content on RSS as there are no interactions or anything.

It feels like this 'solution' is written by someone who just like the 'tech' of RSS and blogs.

Re: Blog Feeds

#54

Post by riffraff »

geerlingguy wrote: post #47
re wrote: post #36

> The idea is to create another page on your blog that has all the RSS feeds you're subscribed to. By keeping this public and always up to date, someone can visit your page, find someone new and follow them. Perhaps that person also has a feeds page, and the cycle continues until there is a natural and organic network of people all sharing with each other. So if you have a blog, consider making a feeds page and shari…

And even better, there used to be a concept of "pingback", back before it was just abused by spammers, where you could connect blog posts together (the OG "react" medium) through a ping mechanism that was at least in Wordpress, not sure about other platforms. But I found a ton of great blogs just scanning through other people's blogrolls.

An interesting development of modern blogging is you can integrate the fediverse pretty easily, e.g. WordPress can trivially publish ActivityPub and you can receive replies, likes, and boosts from mastodon et al.

I Imagine the risk of spam is the same as for pingbacks, but at the moment this doesn't seem to be the case yet.

Re: Blog Feeds

#56

Post by esseph »

chrisweekly wrote: post #49
esseph wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I still don't know what the problem is you're complaining about. I find things I like, I add them to RSS reader. I don't have thousands or hundreds of things in there, maybe a few dozen. "Make it easy for users to find things" - if they can find a website, they can find an RSS feed. I'm sure any LLM with Deep Research would be great for that.

"I find things I like" is the discoverabity problem right there. Where do you find them?

They're all websites. We've spent decades building search engines that index and categorize these. Mostly though they are just news websites, aggregators, friends, or friends of friends. I'm not searching to solve a problem, per say, just things I may enjoy reading about if I have time.

Re: Blog Feeds

#57

Post by onli »

geerlingguy wrote: post #47
re wrote: post #36

> The idea is to create another page on your blog that has all the RSS feeds you're subscribed to. By keeping this public and always up to date, someone can visit your page, find someone new and follow them. Perhaps that person also has a feeds page, and the cycle continues until there is a natural and organic network of people all sharing with each other. So if you have a blog, consider making a feeds page and shari…

And even better, there used to be a concept of "pingback", back before it was just abused by spammers, where you could connect blog posts together (the OG "react" medium) through a ping mechanism that was at least in Wordpress, not sure about other platforms. But I found a ton of great blogs just scanning through other people's blogrolls.

WordPress still has those, or are they disabled by now for new blogs? I get them from WordPress blogs sometimes instead of the nicer trackbacks, same thing without xmlrpc. Webmentions are an orthogonal newer system, basically incompatible trackbacks.

Serendipity implements all three now, so there are definitely still blog engines that support these mechanisms.

Re: Blog Feeds

#58

Post by soapdog »

re wrote: post #36

> The idea is to create another page on your blog that has all the RSS feeds you're subscribed to. By keeping this public and always up to date, someone can visit your page, find someone new and follow them. Perhaps that person also has a feeds page, and the cycle continues until there is a natural and organic network of people all sharing with each other. So if you have a blog, consider making a feeds page and shari…

I made two webextensions that can discover blogrolls:

https://andregarzia.com/2024/05/feed-and-blogrolls-discovery...

Also https://blogcat.org has the same feature but is a full blog reader.

It is cool to surface blogrolls like that.

Re: Blog Feeds

#59

Post by soapdog »

geerlingguy wrote: post #47
re wrote: post #36

> The idea is to create another page on your blog that has all the RSS feeds you're subscribed to. By keeping this public and always up to date, someone can visit your page, find someone new and follow them. Perhaps that person also has a feeds page, and the cycle continues until there is a natural and organic network of people all sharing with each other. So if you have a blog, consider making a feeds page and shari…

And even better, there used to be a concept of "pingback", back before it was just abused by spammers, where you could connect blog posts together (the OG "react" medium) through a ping mechanism that was at least in Wordpress, not sure about other platforms. But I found a ton of great blogs just scanning through other people's blogrolls.

WebMentions are the evolutions of pingbacks and they're a bit more powerful.

https://indieweb.org/Webmention

Re: Blog Feeds

#60

Post by mustaphah »

sameline wrote: post #42
mustaphah wrote: post #17

> RSS is actually already familiar to you if you have ever subscribed to a newsletter [...] RSS is far better than a (digest) newsletter; you can browse individual posts at your own pace, keep some unread for later, and revisit them across sessions. With newsletters, you either read the whole thing in one sitting or leave the email unarchived forever. If only every newsletter had an RSS feed. But of course they don't…

https://kill-the-newsletter.com is a great way to turn email newsletters into RSS.

Nice tool. Thanks for sharing!
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