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Widespread RSS support is crucial to pushing the open web forward and allowing the ecosystem to compete with mainstream social networks. RSS isn’t perfect and
by sonicrocketman 7y ago
Widespread RSS support is crucial to pushing the open web forward and allowing the ecosystem to compete with mainstream social networks.
RSS isn’t perfect and can be fairly technical but the majority of the issues with it can be mitigated with tooling.
Regular people can use RSS; Podcasts have proven this. One thing feeds don’t have is an ITunes style directory.
I run Pine.blog, a Twitter-like, easy to use Feed Reader for iOS and the web that’s trying do do exactly these things: make Feeds easy to consume and discover so the open web can flourish.
Pine.blog has a free feed directory that helps users discover new sites and feeds to follow. The directory is human curated and moderated and it has an API for other developers to use for free (as well as a paid version for commercial applications).
Feedback always welcome!
Feed Reader
https://pine.blog https://pine.blog
Feed Directory
https://pine.blog/search https://pine.blog/search
- enz 7y ago> RSS isn’t perfect and can be fairly technical but the majority of the issues with it can be mitigated with tooling Or by using Atom instead of RSS! Atom is very well supported too. Actually, we sometimes say "RSS" to refer to a feed whenever it is RSS or Atom.
- sonicrocketman 7y agoI typically say “feed” since JSON Feed, Atom, and more fit into that category.