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I love RSS/atom feeds. One thing I'm wondering though, RSS is is XML based. Most things are/have moved to JSON (RPC really more than REST). My question is why is XML still good for this use case? Genuinely interested.
PSA: enable CORS[1] so people can make cross-origin requests without having to run a proxy. PSA #2: set things up so the author field of your feed includes your email address (e.g. "Alice ") and not just your bare name, so people can more easily get in touch with you without having to click through to the original post and then hunt around for your contact page; otherwise, you might never find out it's broken[2]. 1.…
I should really add my email address to my news feed though.
Does anyone use (or know of) software that follows RSS feeds and sends you a single daily/weekly/whatever digest with links to all new posts? TinyTinyRSS has this functionality which I am currently using but it's not very pretty or configurable - I'm wondering if there is anything else that I could look into.
The current situation at Twitter has made me want to go back to the good-old-days of RSS, I'm glad to see I'm not alone. I'm rusty, though. What's the best Mac desktop RSS client these days?
I highly recommend Reeder. Been using it for years. Solid.
I just don’t understand the obsession with privacy at all cost. What has anyone actually had happen to them as a result of their Reddit or YouTube browsing history? This just seems like reverse voyeurism, and while that’s fine, it’s odd to assume anyone else shares that fetish with you.
What happened to me? All the big social media sites send me to an information prison. It makes using the internet not fun anymore if you can't break out of your information bubble to get a different perspective! There's no "common knowledge" anymore and that development is fueled by people giving away their valuable data willy nilly. I just don't want that, I hate it actually and I think it's very dangerous tribalism…
I make heavy use of https://kill-the-newsletter.com/ to convert e-mail newsletters into RSS feeds -- IMO the RSS reader context is way better than an email inbox for consuming newslettery content.
I make heavy use of https://kill-the-newsletter.com/ to convert e-mail newsletters into RSS feeds -- IMO the RSS reader context is way better than an email inbox for consuming newslettery content.
I just don’t understand the obsession with privacy at all cost. What has anyone actually had happen to them as a result of their Reddit or YouTube browsing history? This just seems like reverse voyeurism, and while that’s fine, it’s odd to assume anyone else shares that fetish with you.
Privacy is a self-evident and basic human right, like freedom of expression. The principle of this is already acknowledged in law. For example, reading snail mail is very illegal, and nobody questions what harm would come from someone reading Grandmas "merry christmas" letter to you. It is only on the internet that violations of this right are turned a blind eye to, because of regulatory capture and government inerti…
Aren’t you exhausted by all of this? Why continue to participate in the flywheel when you can otherwise simply reap the myriad benefits that come with a more connected society?
It just seems like some folks prefer constantly being upset…
I loved Google for the way that promoted it so heavily. I thought that it was conceivable that a corporation need not be evil..... How naive!
But then Google dropped rss! Just when they had everyone there!! Why?
It was by design. It was an attempt to kill a protocol that supported disintermediated information, where the user could get information directly from source.
I've never stopped using rss - it is hands down the best way to get information.
If we have a RSS revival, please be Atom 1.0 :) !
Didn't someone try to start a JSON based RSS standard a while back?