Escape the walled garden and algorithm black boxes with RSS feeds
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Re: Escape the walled garden and algorithm black boxes with RSS feeds
#2The article also mentions atom feeds. I've seen plenty of RSS feeds but I have never encountered an atom feed. Are atom feeds still relevant?
Re: Escape the walled garden and algorithm black boxes with RSS feeds
#3The article also mentions atom feeds. I've seen plenty of RSS feeds but I have never encountered an atom feed. Are atom feeds still relevant?
Atom and RSS are functionally equivalent despite their technical differences. Effectively no one has ever implemented Atom push capabilities so Atom is primarily only ever used for syndication. The term "RSS" is just a generic term for "XML syndication feed".
Re: Escape the walled garden and algorithm black boxes with RSS feeds
#4That helps find content to read.
I wish it was easier to find out what my friends have been up to without getting them to sign up for some platform they’ve never heard of, then post in multiple places in perpetuity, and move on again when that platform also goes to shit.
A hard problem but surely not unsolvable. It belongs in a pg “please solve these big problems” essay.
Re: Escape the walled garden and algorithm black boxes with RSS feeds
#5Def how I consume HN. It’s even nice to see flagged and dead which I wouldn’t see easily if I came via the HN homepage.
Re: Escape the walled garden and algorithm black boxes with RSS feeds
#6The article also mentions atom feeds. I've seen plenty of RSS feeds but I have never encountered an atom feed. Are atom feeds still relevant?
As an example, feeds available on every github repo:
https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadger/commits.atom
Re: Escape the walled garden and algorithm black boxes with RSS feeds
#7This is so pushing happy buttons for me.
Not that this is novel in any way, but I just started a repo call Subcurrent yesterday for the Astoria Tech Meetup in NYC at our Saturday hack session. Subcurrent aims to provide a feed aggregator page made of our community members' feeds. https://github.com/astoria-tech/subcurrent
I did not know that Meetup.com exposes RSS feeds at all, so I will be adding that to our Subcurrent instance since our group keeps events on Meetup.com.
I had never heard of Kill the Newsletter, but I'm a fan sight-unseen. Substack at least has feeds. You can append `/feed` to the newsletter's URL.
Thanks for writing this!
Re: Escape the walled garden and algorithm black boxes with RSS feeds
#8So many RSS stories this week! I'm sensing a trend (hopefully)
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Re: Escape the walled garden and algorithm black boxes with RSS feeds
#10This is missing planets.
A good way to find interesting blogs is to subscribe to a few planets.
These are essentially aggregations of blog related to some project/topic.
https://planet.gnome.org/ https://planet.kde.org/ https://planet.mozilla.org/ https://planet.documentfoundation.org/
PS. If you know any good planets worth skimming, please add to below :)
That said, I don't really have a good RSS reader that syncs across devices. I currently use Feedly, but it tries to be too smart.