Thoughts on RSS

[rcjordan]

https://matt-rickard.com/thoughts-on-rss/

[ergophobe]

I must say that for years and years, I used my Kindle Fire as a dedicated newsreader that let me sort of segment my newsreading from other activities, but when Feedly for Fire didn't work anymore, I kind of let RSS drop after so long.

I suppose for every person who discovers it and starts using it, there are 10 people like me.

[Brad]

He's right, RSS has not kept up with the times, tech-wise.  But there is nothing else quite like it.  You can sort of use Twitter as a news feed but you get all the loonies with it.

[rcjordan]

>  there is nothing else quite like it. 

Combined with my tampermonkey filtering scripts, rss is THE most powerful, user-empowering browser tech I have.  Publishers who are monetizing through ads or aff links aren't going to like it because rss allows reviewing (and pre-filtering) without actual user engagement.  OTOH, publishers who are just trying to broadcast their content --blogs, journals, scientific papers, public notices, etc-- are dumb not to include rss on their sites.

[rcjordan]

People who don't use RSS don't know what they are missing out.
https://ruky.me/2022/07/25/people-who-dont-use-rss-dont-know-what-they-are-missing-out/

NetNewsWire: Free and Open Source RSS Reader for Mac and iOS
https://netnewswire.com/

[ergophobe]

He sounds like my good twin

I was a Feed Burner user until Google decided to shut it down. Then I jumped between Feedly, NewsBlur, and a couple of other RSS readers and they were not the same. Because I was unable to find a good RSS reader that works across all my devices, I gave up using RSS for the last 5-6 years.

[rcjordan]

>works across all my devices

Goodbye Feedly. Hello InoReader.^(cloud)
http://th3core.com/talk/hardware-technology/goodbye-feedly-hello-inoreader/

Love my personalized version of InoReader.

[Brad]

> NetNewsWire

I'm not really within the Apple garden, but I do hear that NetNewsWire is really good.

[jetboy]

I still love my RSS, but take a different approach. rss2email (https://github.com/rss2email/rss2email) runs on my mail server and (as its name suggests) converts RSS items to emails, and drops them in a dedicated email account. A corresponding Sieve (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve_(mail_filtering_language)) script moves each feed to a specified folder.

It's a bit old school, and I don't have any filtering, but it serves my purpose, which is to keep up with the output of 30ish tech websites in a channel I already use.

[rcjordan]

You can read my blog posts using `curl`
https://mahdi.blog/raw-permalinks-for-accessibility/

[ergophobe]

That works surprisingly well. And it loaded so fast, I thought it was just an error message. I literally blinked and the whole blog post was on screen

[rcjordan]

Chrome "Feed" is tantalizing, but it's not the return of Google Reader
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/08/chrome-feed-is-tantalizing-but-its-not-the-return-of-google-reader/