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Re: RSS is awesome

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Post by trippyballs »

geor9e wrote: post #23

Yes! I've been using RSS (feedbro reader) to de-algorithm social media for a long time now. Twitter (via nitter), Facebook (public posts only), HN, etc. It's all in a chronological RSS feed. No algorithms choosing what I see, no infinite scroll. If it's not a public post from a user I added, I don't see it. Luckily all my close friends are public-only type posters so it works. My pet conspiracy is that big tech has w…

I’ve been looking for a way to get RSS feeds from Twitter profiles. tried RSS-Bridge but couldn’t get it working. rss.app works, but it’s paid. nitter feeds look promising but come through as invalid. how did you do it

Re: RSS is awesome

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Post by dvh »

No it's not.

- There are million different formats.

- guids are not required, they are not monotonically rising integers, and there is no length limits on them (I've seen 50kb guid in the wild)

- date is not required

- you cannot fetch articles "since guid 123". If you go on vacation and return, if the feed had too much traffic they are gone, you'll never see the articles you missed except last 20 or so.

- whether article will be in full or just a teaser is fully in the hands of the server

Re: RSS is awesome

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Post by lylo »

Yes! I've been lovingly curating a set of RSS feeds for over 20 years. It's a wonderful gift from the internet.

I actually built a simple and free RSS reader because my needs are simple and I'm a sucker for punishment. You'd think websites would want bots to read their RSS feeds since that's the whole point of RSS, but apparently not! ツ

https://feedgrab.net

Re: RSS is awesome

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Post by lylo »

k2enemy wrote: post #2

Boy do I feel old if a short, low content PSA about the existence of RSS is considered "hacker news."

Anything that raises awareness of RSS to a new generation is a wonderful thing!

Re: RSS is awesome

#96

Post by lylo »

627467 wrote: post #19
user3939382 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

RSS is the antidote to algorithm feeds. I’m glad for any mention of it. 90% of the tools users need were built 1970-2000 including RSS.

Having restarted using rss in the past months (after probably 10+ years of not using it) i am now starting to remember why I stopped using it: lack of a personal "algorithm" that made hundreds (if not 1000s) of unread daily items to be manageable. I know part of it is on me. I need to let go, unsubscribe aggressively, etc... but this is... work? Im not a regular iOS user, but on it I have feeeeds which actually seem…

Yeah never subscribe to a feed that publishes more than once a day (basically any news website).

Re: RSS is awesome

#97

Post by DonHopkins »

DamnInteresting wrote: post #38
nine_k wrote: post #33

RSS is terrible as a format (Atom is much better), but RSS is awesome as an idea. If your web site were a database, RSS would be like WAL. If your website were differentiable, it would be like its derivative, or rather a Lagrangian, taken at the moment of last update. (BTW all serious static site generators know how to produce an RSS/Atom feed.)

We should popularize a JSON-based alternative, we'll call it "Absurdly Simple Syndication."

And instead of "feeds", call them "holes". And instead "subscriptions", they're "heads up". Dave Winer's would be the biggest with the most!

https://web.archive.org/web/20070910131413/http://news.com.c...

Re: RSS is awesome

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Post by DonHopkins »

ropable wrote: post #20

I'm sad that a basic description of what RSS consists of makes it onto HN. I still upvoted to help educate the kids :/ FYI FreshRSS is fairly trivial to self-host, and is a really nice option for an RSS reader app.

Who old enough to remember when everybody was syndicating all their favorite RSS feeds on their own blogs, and then some joker posted a blog entry to his own RSS feed with a title like "What happens when you put an unbalanced tag into the title?", and the ENTIRE BLOGOSPHERE started blinking?

Re: RSS is awesome

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Post by emigre »

vanc_cefepime wrote: post #56
ropable wrote: post #20

I'm sad that a basic description of what RSS consists of makes it onto HN. I still upvoted to help educate the kids :/ FYI FreshRSS is fairly trivial to self-host, and is a really nice option for an RSS reader app.

Preferential to Miniflux myself, but any RSS reader is better than none.

I have been using miniflux for a while. I love it. It's great.

Re: RSS is awesome

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Post by john-tells-all »

I adore RSS! Use it literally every single day. I have many feeds on Feedly.com, and add to it every week or two.

Tip: use a service to stream quality content to your RSS feed reader. For Hacker News, http://hnapp.com/ does the trick for me.

I subscribe to a couple dozen authors on Hacker News.

Example: in hnapp, search for `author:bob1029`, there's an RSS link, paste that into your RSS feed reader to see that person's Hacker News comments.

I have an entire "Hacker News" section in Feedly, just with author's comments. Very useful!

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