I ditched the algorithm for RSS
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I ditched the algorithm for RSS
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Re: I ditched the algorithm for RSS
#2Happy user of NetNewsWire on macOS for many, many years (including following HN, and a number YT channels).
Re: I ditched the algorithm for RSS
#3For those implementing feeds, "RSS" seems to get a lot of mentions, but how much of it is RSS-as-such and how much is "RSS" as a generic term for "feed", with Atom also perhaps being implemented:
Re: I ditched the algorithm for RSS
#4I remember the period where I switched from the Something Awful forums to Reddit. Back in the day, you had to dig through a bunch of stuff that was bad to get to the "comedy gold". But even the bad stuff was sometimes comically bad. On Reddit, all the "gold" was always at the top, so there's always something "good", but it was generally lackluster and not quite it. Still it made me lazy and I switched (not that I read Reddit today).
Re: I ditched the algorithm for RSS
#5Happy user of NetNewsWire on macOS for many, many years (including following HN, and a number YT channels).
Does it sync across machines? If so that would be amazing
Edit: as in like, subscribed feeds. Obviously the feeds would update on both machines but would I need to add each feed to the app twice is what I meant to ask.
Re: I ditched the algorithm for RSS
#6I’ve been meaning to give this a shot. I wonder if anyone has figured out how to fit Twitter into RSS? It’s obviously not a natural fit since there are many more posts but the average quality and length is lower. But if I could figure it out, then similar to what this article says, it would help permanently break the habit of endlessly scrolling a feed.
Re: I ditched the algorithm for RSS
#7Yes please, RSS is the true federated Internet for content distribution.
Re: I ditched the algorithm for RSS
#8Happy user of NetNewsWire on macOS for many, many years (including following HN, and a number YT channels).
Does it sync across machines? If so that would be amazing Edit: as in like, subscribed feeds. Obviously the feeds would update on both machines but would I need to add each feed to the app twice is what I meant to ask.
Yes it does.
Re: I ditched the algorithm for RSS
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Does it sync across machines? If so that would be amazing Edit: as in like, subscribed feeds. Obviously the feeds would update on both machines but would I need to add each feed to the app twice is what I meant to ask.
Yes it does.
And the read/unread state of posts syncs, as well. Between MacOS, iPadOS and iOS.
Re: I ditched the algorithm for RSS
#10Apologies for promoting my project again (did this in at least 2 other threads related to RSS), but I'm weirdly proud of it: I'm curating a list of human-written blogs on my blog reader/discovery/search engine called Minifeed: https://minifeed.net/blogs/
There's an OPML export available as well: https://minifeed.net/blogs/opml.xml