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Are there online RSS feed writers that nontechnical people could use? Reading a pure collection of my friend's RSS feeds would be wonderful. Though to the best
by jakecopp 9y ago
Are there online RSS feed writers that nontechnical people could use? Reading a pure collection of my friend's RSS feeds would be wonderful.
Though to the best of my understanding there is no way of commenting on RSS posts unless you host a site.
- daveFNbuck 9y agoYes, I find Feedly to be quite usable. It also has some social features but I have no idea how those work.
- fitzroy 9y agoFriendFeed was great for this (until it was acquired and eventually shut down by Facebook). Seems like a good time to resurrect that idea.
- dawnerd 9y agoNewsblur? Theres commenting and it's pretty easy to use.
- zdkl 9y agoHave you checked out the ActivityPub spec? https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/#Overview https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/#Overview
- brylie 9y agoFWIW, Mastadon supports ActivityPub: https://hackernoon.com/mastodon-and-the-w3c-f75f376f422 https://hackernoon.com/mastodon-and-the-w3c-f75f376f422
- brylie 9y agoFor non-technical people, it might be good to help them get set up on Mastadon network: https://joinmastodon.org/ https://joinmastodon.org/ https://instances.social/ https://instances.social/
- aaron-lebo 9y agoThat's not a good choice for non technical people. I respect what they are doing, but the community is still nerdy and really small. It will feel good from a techie perspective, but it's not something that many users are going to get much value out of, you are kind of wasting their time. Not sure, but pretty sure Mastodon is going to end up being as popular as Diaspora RStatus or app.net. It's not a mainstream solution. Federation for most people is a useful feature on top of an active popular social network, not the other way around.
- smsm42 9y agoIf you want to read RSS, use feedly. I've moved to it when Google killed Reader, and haven't regretted it since.