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More people spend time worrying about the decline of RSS than the amount of people actually using RSS.

Andrew_nenakhov 7y ago
Well, I discovered this topic via RSS in Feedly. Pretty lively dead standard!
themagician 7y ago
The decline of RSS has ruined the internet for me. I’m not being hyperbolic either. RSS effectively died and has been replaced with Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram feeds. Even if RSS still technical exists for some content, it’s not the same. What was great about RSS is it was pure. If content creators and publishers wanted to put ads in the feed they could and you knew you were directly supporting them. We didn’t have this stupid “likes” garbage that people were competing for. I find myself just consuming a lot less content on the internet. I’d rather just not participate than have to wade through the bullshit that’s become “social media.”
- jauke 7y ago
  I consume most content via RSS. It certainly doesn’t feel dead to me. There are ways to get Facebook, Instagram and Twitter content into RSS too if that’s what you need.
  - stevenicr 7y ago
    I am interested in getting these three as rss feeds, not that I use them very much, much getting them into a reader would help others very much. a quick search shows some things saying public pages can be made RSS, but nothing like a bot that can suck in what your wall or whatever would be and push it into a feed that can be read otherwise. Here's to hoping the twitter open api thing and the few stories about portable data and standard export for social etc come true. Or maybe I need to dig deeper, but my gut feeling is/was - finding a way to pull these feeds would lead to the method being killed off by these walled gardens at some point so don't bother. I'd love to be wrong on this.
    - superkuh 7y ago
      I use twitrss.me 's Perl code (https://github.com/ciderpunx/twitrssme https://github.com/ciderpunx/twitrssme) to generate custom RSS feeds of twitter users and twitter searches locally which my native feed reader (QuiteRSS) then displays. I run a long bash file with lines like, perl twitter_user_to_rss.pl NASAJPL > ~/limbo/www/rss/NASAJPL.xml perl twitter_search_to_rss_wtf.pl "electrostatic sail" > ~/limbo/www/rss/electrostatic-sail.xml
    - jauke 7y ago
      I use RSS Bridge. You can host it yourself, which is probably better, or use a public instance. https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge/blob/master/README.md https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge/blob/master/README....
      - official151 7y ago
        Check Details Here http://bit.ly/367ssqC http://bit.ly/367ssqC this sounds like a privacy issue and should be filed as a bug. if I can't open a link in a private tab in Safari (or ideally the browser of my choice) then I can not protect my privacy. The launched app will get to record my activity or via the non private browser tab the site will track me. file a bug / feedback that this is not in line with Apple's privacy first stance Check details Here http://bit.ly/367ssqC http://bit.ly/367ssqC
vaylian 7y ago
citation needed
jankiehodgpodge 7y ago
I don't know. I use Podcasts every day.
- randomdata 7y ago
  That was my first thought as well. Apple's Podcast software still seems to be fully supported.
franzwong 7y ago
Because the decline of RSS stops people using RSS. I still think RSS is the best way for news and blogs. I don't want go to each website regularly to check for any update.

Well, I discovered this topic via RSS in Feedly. Pretty lively dead standard!

The decline of RSS has ruined the internet for me. I’m not being hyperbolic either. RSS effectively died and has been replaced with Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram feeds. Even if RSS still technical exists for some content, it’s not the same. What was great about RSS is it was pure. If content creators and publishers wanted to put ads in the feed they could and you knew you were directly supporting them. We didn’t have this stupid “likes” garbage that people were competing for. I find myself just consuming a lot less content on the internet. I’d rather just not participate than have to wade through the bullshit that’s become “social media.”

jauke 7y ago
I consume most content via RSS. It certainly doesn’t feel dead to me. There are ways to get Facebook, Instagram and Twitter content into RSS too if that’s what you need.
- stevenicr 7y ago
  I am interested in getting these three as rss feeds, not that I use them very much, much getting them into a reader would help others very much. a quick search shows some things saying public pages can be made RSS, but nothing like a bot that can suck in what your wall or whatever would be and push it into a feed that can be read otherwise. Here's to hoping the twitter open api thing and the few stories about portable data and standard export for social etc come true. Or maybe I need to dig deeper, but my gut feeling is/was - finding a way to pull these feeds would lead to the method being killed off by these walled gardens at some point so don't bother. I'd love to be wrong on this.
  - superkuh 7y ago
    I use twitrss.me 's Perl code (https://github.com/ciderpunx/twitrssme https://github.com/ciderpunx/twitrssme) to generate custom RSS feeds of twitter users and twitter searches locally which my native feed reader (QuiteRSS) then displays. I run a long bash file with lines like, perl twitter_user_to_rss.pl NASAJPL > ~/limbo/www/rss/NASAJPL.xml perl twitter_search_to_rss_wtf.pl "electrostatic sail" > ~/limbo/www/rss/electrostatic-sail.xml
  - jauke 7y ago
    I use RSS Bridge. You can host it yourself, which is probably better, or use a public instance. https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge/blob/master/README.md https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge/blob/master/README....
    - official151 7y ago
      Check Details Here http://bit.ly/367ssqC http://bit.ly/367ssqC this sounds like a privacy issue and should be filed as a bug. if I can't open a link in a private tab in Safari (or ideally the browser of my choice) then I can not protect my privacy. The launched app will get to record my activity or via the non private browser tab the site will track me. file a bug / feedback that this is not in line with Apple's privacy first stance Check details Here http://bit.ly/367ssqC http://bit.ly/367ssqC

vaylian 7y ago

citation needed

jankiehodgpodge 7y ago

I don't know. I use Podcasts every day.

randomdata 7y ago
That was my first thought as well. Apple's Podcast software still seems to be fully supported.

franzwong 7y ago

Because the decline of RSS stops people using RSS. I still think RSS is the best way for news and blogs. I don't want go to each website regularly to check for any update.