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I hope RSS keeps being provided for most sites. I listen to a lot of podcasts, and I keep track thanks to RSS. Most podcasting platforms behave the same way: t
by chicob 8y ago
I hope RSS keeps being provided for most sites.
I listen to a lot of podcasts, and I keep track thanks to RSS.
Most podcasting platforms behave the same way: they put themselves in between listeners and broadcasters and limit the way people can share the audio, how it is synchronized with some device, and always making sure that our browsing data can me monetized in some way.
So podcasters usually have a never-ending list of platforms, which not always overlap, and which I would never subscribe anyway.
I find this annoying, and that is why I've always used RSS. For news, it allowed me to skim through the stuff I didn't want to read and also to miss all of the annoying ads.
Now, it seems many RSS reader behave the same way: users need a login in order to access a closed environment that monetizes your reading habits.
Fortunately, I found QuiteRSS (https://quiterss.org https://quiterss.org), a cross-platform FOSS for RSS with backup, import/export, and adblocking.
I like it a lot. I guess the only way it could be improved is by making it fully portable.
- burtonator 8y agoPodcasts are amazing. I helped invent that too.. I actually created the mod_link spec for this purpose: http://web.resource.org/rss/1.0/modules/link/ http://web.resource.org/rss/1.0/modules/link/ interestingly I was attacked for it and people thought it was an anti-RSS feature and that it was "dangerously stupid" ... I didn't expect that reaction but looks like I was right. Podcasts provide for most of the value in RSS right now. Podcasts aren't going anywhere! The main reason podcasting was successful IMO is apple supporting it.