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I would bring back RSS. The good parts of twitter (you can follow what lots of people have to say and aggregate it in a single feed) without the bad parts (char
by cm2187 6y ago
I would bring back RSS. The good parts of twitter (you can follow what lots of people have to say and aggregate it in a single feed) without the bad parts (character limits, "you stink" and other snarky comments, control of a centralised platform over who can say what, etc).
- JJMcJ 6y agoTwitter - ephemeral, too condensed or else a huge thread Blogs - permanent, can explore at depth RSS - Multiple chances to go back and read something if you don't right away
- naavis 6y agoI don't think RSS has gone anywhere. Most half-decent blogs still support it, I think.
- jeffkeen 6y agoYeah, I don't get what people mean when they say "bring back RSS"—-it's still around. The thing that disappeared was Google Reader, which I guess was a signal of super mainstream popularity of RSS. Feedly is a great app that I use regularly to keep up with RSS, and there are other RSS readers too. It's not like we're talking about a dead protocol like Gopher, here.
- BlueTemplar 6y agoIMHO Feedly is barely adequate.
- beambot 6y agoGive NewsBlur a try.
- cm2187 6y agoYes but most people broadcast their views or interesting findings on twitter because that’s where the audience is.
- folmar 6y agoI'd even say it's working much better than in the golden days as pretty much everyone is using an off-the-shelf blog engine which does RSS just fine, whereas in the old times a good half of the blogs were something homegrown/obscure/opt-in rss.
- Mediterraneo10 6y agoRSS feeds are still widely generated, but they are not encouraged and overt links to them have been removed. I know that many proprietors of monetized blogs keep RSS feed generation turned on because they think it is important for SEO, but they don't want readers using it because it clashes with their monetization strategy -- users are supposed to be drawn straight to the main website where they can then be upsold through popup modals and shit. I recall one blog where even mentioning in the comments feed that you subscribe to the site through RSS would lead to a permaban.
- naavis 6y agoThanks for the explanation. Sounds pretty awful. I mostly read smaller unmonetized blogs, so I have not bumped into this.
- heavyset_go 6y agoI use RSS everyday, and follow several hundred sites using it. One thing that gets overlooked when discussing RSS is that the nature of feeds themselves lends to scripting. I have one single source of aggregated data that I can run queries against, automate scripts with, generate alerts from etc. It's nice.