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I think broadly RSS needs tools to make content prioritisation and find better. Certain feeds like news sites put everything in their feed and they do a terribl

I think broadly RSS needs tools to make content prioritisation and find better. Certain feeds like news sites put everything in their feed and they do a terrible job of surfacing what is likely to be valuable. It would be nice if the high volume sites could be tamed some how and its not going to come from them and its not something RSS/Atom deals with. Customised feeds, filtering and people who liked this liked that kind of surfacing without the obnoxious adverts has a decent chance of being niche popular with the right interface. I am certainly interested in trying to improve this. There has to be a less privacy invading and engagement promoting system that can work and compete with the mess that is the big silicon valley sites.

Semiapies 5y ago
That's not what RSS is for. It's a subscription system that notifies you when something has added new content. You control what you follow. You can follow aggregators, you can follow curators, and you can filter what you follow. Discovery comes from what you get from who you follow. Humans going, "This is interesting.", you agreeing, and you following another blog or outlet. Anything else definitionally is the "Silicon Valley algorithms" people say they don't want.
lonk11 5y ago
You are describing the project I'm building: https://linklonk.com https://linklonk.com You connect to RSS feeds when you "thumb up" or directly submit a link that this feed posted. The more of the content you like from the same feed - the more other content from that feed will be prioritized. So feeds that post too frequently naturally go down in the ranking. And feeds that have a high signal-to-noise ratio are at the top. On LinkLonk I am subscribed to 202 RSS feeds (you can see your subscriptions here https://linklonk.com/feeds https://linklonk.com/feeds), and I don't get overwhelmed by too much content. You also connect to people who like the same content as you did. In that case each user is similar to an RSS feed (a user has "channels"). The more in common you have with a user - the more content you see from them. No obnoxious adverts, no trackers and it's free. Would love to get any feedback (email in profile).
- anderspitman 5y ago
  Hey it's me from the future. This is cool.
  - lonk11 5y ago
    Hello future! Glad you like it. Do you have any suggestions on how it could work better for you?

Semiapies 5y ago

That's not what RSS is for. It's a subscription system that notifies you when something has added new content. You control what you follow. You can follow aggregators, you can follow curators, and you can filter what you follow. Discovery comes from what you get from who you follow. Humans going, "This is interesting.", you agreeing, and you following another blog or outlet. Anything else definitionally is the "Silicon Valley algorithms" people say they don't want.

lonk11 5y ago

You are describing the project I'm building: https://linklonk.com https://linklonk.com You connect to RSS feeds when you "thumb up" or directly submit a link that this feed posted. The more of the content you like from the same feed - the more other content from that feed will be prioritized. So feeds that post too frequently naturally go down in the ranking. And feeds that have a high signal-to-noise ratio are at the top. On LinkLonk I am subscribed to 202 RSS feeds (you can see your subscriptions here https://linklonk.com/feeds https://linklonk.com/feeds), and I don't get overwhelmed by too much content. You also connect to people who like the same content as you did. In that case each user is similar to an RSS feed (a user has "channels"). The more in common you have with a user - the more content you see from them. No obnoxious adverts, no trackers and it's free. Would love to get any feedback (email in profile).

anderspitman 5y ago
Hey it's me from the future. This is cool.
- lonk11 5y ago
  Hello future! Glad you like it. Do you have any suggestions on how it could work better for you?