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Re: Using RSS to replace social media

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Post by woodruffw »

jsilence wrote: post #78
woodruffw wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can do whatever you please! Not everybody knows, because he's a relative nobody who occasionally gets laundered through HN. My only role in this entire thing is making sure that the bits that I know are available for consideration.

He does not seem to be a complete mindless dummy. Ever tried to contact and argue with him? I'd honestly watch that. Same thing with Jordan Peterson. I must not agree with his stand points and positions, but his arguments are compelling at times and it is fun watching and following his stuff. I can only broaden my view if don't look into the same direction all the time.

Both Peterson and Smith’s content falls squarely into the tarpit of bullshit asymmetry: anything that they chose to mouth off on takes an asymmetrically large amount of effort to rebut. That’s not how I’d prefer to spend my time, and it’s not something I can reasonably ask any person to do.

Re: Using RSS to replace social media

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Post by theshrike79 »

ravenstine wrote: post #51
chrismorgan wrote: post #49

Technical correction: YouTube, GitHub and GitLab all produce Atom feeds, not RSS. (Nitter has /rss in its URLs but I can’t confirm they’re actually RSS because the feeds seem to be broken, producing HTML “user not found” error pages.) (If you want to know more of my beef against RSS (both as a technology and as a term for web feeds regardless of actual format): https://hn.algolia.com/?query=chrismorgan+atom+rss&type=…

I'm curious, why do you think it should have been killed off in favor of Atom? Do you mean in the sense of the terminology, or is there something inferior about RSS? Perhaps both should be killed off in favor of a JSON-based format.

> Perhaps both should be killed off in favor of a JSON-based format.

As long as XML has DTD and Schema, it will be superior to JSON

Re: Using RSS to replace social media

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Post by poopsmithe »

I've been enjoying using https://fraidyc.at/ for the past year or so. It ingests RSS and is smart enough for everything else. I use it to follow people on Twitter, know when a favorite youtuber uploads a video, subscribe to a number of blogs, and know exactly when a new post is added to the subreddits I frequent.

Re: Using RSS to replace social media

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Post by Andrew_nenakhov »

Kaze404 wrote: post #47
kkoncevicius wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

After reading I think you are blowing this out of proportion by stating that "it says it all". There is a section there about his political beliefs and he says his main belief is that tech-monopolies should be broken down and society should be governed on a smaller scale. I think half of HN readers would agree with some version of that. And about "the SJWs" - he only says that people are asking him to make video abou…

There isn't much alt-right about that specifically, but it's clear wording that the alt-right has been using online for years. Talking about "SJWs" controlling the media and universities (and in the very same paragraph saying every "normal" person wants them "gone") and calling things you dislike "soy" are both plays in the years old alt-right playbook. If it walks like a duck and it quacks like a duck...

I have noticed that people commonly referred to as SJW often consider everyone who is not them to be alt-right.

And yes, people sharing social justice values do obsess over it and it shows.

Anecdotal example: random article brought to me by sliding android home screen to the left about new Foundation series spent more than half of the volume addressing the diversity of the cast and lamenting that on-screen sex was showing only heterosexuals.

This can be said about almost any article about any piece of media directed to me by Google, from which I do conclude that SJWs, indeed, control the media.

(I have no personal experience with the US universities, so I can't say anything about them being controlled by the SJWs)

Re: Using RSS to replace social media

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Post by grujicd »

I’m doing it the other way, using social media instead of RSS! Ok, only half joking.

Facebook is now what RSS was supposed to be, but for the non-tech masses. Sure, I still use RSS for tech blogs, but how do I find about local concerts and events, schedule changes for kid’s aikido, etc? All these small organizations, clubs, bands, artists, venues use Facebook as a way to notify their members/fans.

After some curating, I really like my Facebook. But I don’t use it as a social network, i.e. there’s not much social stuff there. “Loud” friends or relatives they are muted. But that’s where I find out about next concert of bands I follow, which I wouldn’t find elsewhere.

Re: Using RSS to replace social media

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Post by olah_1 »

woodruffw wrote: post #79
olah_1 wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you for reporting this, comrade.

Accusing your critics of being communists is a famously strong argument against being a reactionary, as all of modern history has shown!

There is no critique here other than “reported for wrong think”.

Re: Using RSS to replace social media

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Post by woodruffw »

olah_1 wrote: post #86
woodruffw wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Accusing your critics of being communists is a famously strong argument against being a reactionary, as all of modern history has shown!

There is no critique here other than “reported for wrong think”.

You do realize that this is an Internet forum and that nobody has been reported, right?

It’s incredible how we’ve descended from “someone pointed out that the author of TFA is a reactionary” to breathless analogies.

Re: Using RSS to replace social media

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Post by _dain_ »

woodruffw wrote: post #64

I'll post this every time someone tries to launder Luke Smith through HN: he is a reactionary with a relatively popular YouTube channel in which he openly espouses and trades in racist talking points[1]. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2eYFnH61tmytImy1mTYvhA

get over it

Re: Using RSS to replace social media

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Post by _dain_ »

Kaze404 wrote: post #27
jetstreamSam wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would completely agree on that, if his general blog would be what was posted. But this is an unrelated informative article, which is why I don't think discrediting critique of the person is valid. Especially since the 'offenses' seem impressively minor in this case.

I agree that this is an unrelated article, but he opened this can of worms himself by inserting dogwhistles in it. Which is unfortunate, because the information in there is actually useful and something I would gladly link in the "Library" section of my blog. But I can't do that now, otherwise I'd be platforming speech that wants me dead.

> platforming speech that wants me dead.

can you point to a single instance where luke smith has advocated violence, against you or others?

Re: Using RSS to replace social media

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Post by piggybox »

illegalmemory wrote: post #3
yur3i__ wrote: post #2

The issue with these solutions is that they're only really one way, if I actually want to interact with anything posted to the RSS feed I have to navigate to the main website anyway, which renders the initial reading of them in a freer way pretty pointless.

I agree, but that is beautiful right? The choice is in user’s hand if they want to interact with content or not. If they don’t want to read the content from that publisher in future they can simply do that, rather than getting three drip mails in 2 week intervals on why I haven’t read emails sent to me by them.

Since you mention choice, then this is just an option rather than a replacement. If it's a replacement then it takes away the option to interact with content (such as commenting).
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