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If only there was some kind of really simple syndication so I didn’t have to visit 40 different sites to check if my favorite video creators have released anyth

If only there was some kind of really simple syndication so I didn’t have to visit 40 different sites to check if my favorite video creators have released anything new.

Franciscouzo 6y ago
Is this sarcasm? RSS has been a thing for years.
- sodality2 6y ago
  RSS stands for really simple syndication, so yes, sarcasm
heavyset_go 6y ago
Fun fact for those who watch videos by creators who haven't moved off of YouTube yet: YouTube channels expose RSS feeds of uploads and you can watch videos directly without ads via youtube-dl automatically using MPV[1]. [1] https://mpv.io/installation/ https://mpv.io/installation/
- crocodiletears 6y ago
  Youtube will restrict your IP if you do this enough. I can't say I lost too much value when it happened, but it's been obnoxious having to go to the main site on my mobile to answer a battery of captchas every time I want to watch a video.
1000mA 6y ago
RSS feed for videos?
Daho0n 6y ago
Please see dang's post up top.
rtpg 6y ago
This sort of dumb sarcasm is soooo annoying for a billion reasons: - Every major website where RSS would be useful (except Facebook. Twitter needs RSS like we need the plague), _has it!_ RSS support is ubiquitous - There are carbon-copy clones of google reader. I use one every day (well, twice a week cuz I don't depend on reading RSS). You can just subscribe - For really tricky stuff, you can wire together some stuff with, like, Zapier. It's annoying but way easier than it would be 10 years ago (cuz even then loads of random stuff didn't have feeds) This is the most annoying kind of nostalgia. Not because it's wishing for an old world that never existed, but because it's implying that the current world doesn't _still have all of this stuff_. At least whining about XMPP has some merit.
- geerlingguy 6y ago
  The first statement is, sadly, no longer true today. Far too many times after a redesign, RSS feeds that were useful and functional just disappear. Sometimes they're redirected to a new feed location that doesn't have all the content the old feed did, or just has headlines instead of headlines and teasers. And many new sites never test RSS functionality, so if there is a feed, it just shows posts tagged 'feed' or something like that.
aphextron 6y ago
Now if only we had some sort of... protocol... that would allow for us to exchange text based documents from different "servers" that each individual content creator is able to control and interlink with other "servers" via some kind of address based referencing system embedded in those documents. That would allow us to discover content and decentralize from platforms like Youtube...

If only there was some kind of really simple syndication so I didn’t have to visit 40 different sites to check if my favorite video creators have released anything new.

Franciscouzo 6y ago

Is this sarcasm? RSS has been a thing for years.

sodality2 6y ago
RSS stands for really simple syndication, so yes, sarcasm

heavyset_go 6y ago

Fun fact for those who watch videos by creators who haven't moved off of YouTube yet: YouTube channels expose RSS feeds of uploads and you can watch videos directly without ads via youtube-dl automatically using MPV[1]. [1] https://mpv.io/installation/ https://mpv.io/installation/

crocodiletears 6y ago
Youtube will restrict your IP if you do this enough. I can't say I lost too much value when it happened, but it's been obnoxious having to go to the main site on my mobile to answer a battery of captchas every time I want to watch a video.

1000mA 6y ago

RSS feed for videos?

Daho0n 6y ago

Please see dang's post up top.

rtpg 6y ago

This sort of dumb sarcasm is soooo annoying for a billion reasons: - Every major website where RSS would be useful (except Facebook. Twitter needs RSS like we need the plague), _has it!_ RSS support is ubiquitous - There are carbon-copy clones of google reader. I use one every day (well, twice a week cuz I don't depend on reading RSS). You can just subscribe - For really tricky stuff, you can wire together some stuff with, like, Zapier. It's annoying but way easier than it would be 10 years ago (cuz even then loads of random stuff didn't have feeds) This is the most annoying kind of nostalgia. Not because it's wishing for an old world that never existed, but because it's implying that the current world doesn't _still have all of this stuff_. At least whining about XMPP has some merit.

geerlingguy 6y ago
The first statement is, sadly, no longer true today. Far too many times after a redesign, RSS feeds that were useful and functional just disappear. Sometimes they're redirected to a new feed location that doesn't have all the content the old feed did, or just has headlines instead of headlines and teasers. And many new sites never test RSS functionality, so if there is a feed, it just shows posts tagged 'feed' or something like that.

aphextron 6y ago

Now if only we had some sort of... protocol... that would allow for us to exchange text based documents from different "servers" that each individual content creator is able to control and interlink with other "servers" via some kind of address based referencing system embedded in those documents. That would allow us to discover content and decentralize from platforms like Youtube...