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OPML has always seemed to me to be a hugely underused technology. A list of someone's feeds is a reasonable indicator of their interests, and bashing different
by dmje 5y ago
OPML has always seemed to me to be a hugely underused technology. A list of someone's feeds is a reasonable indicator of their interests, and bashing different OPML files together feels like it'd be a good way of finding other people with interests that cross with your own.
Related: I've only just now signed up for a newsletter on Substack and it turns out SS is basically a feed reader. Like - the iOS app is literally a feed reader. A list of articles, the concept of what is read vs unread, a vague stab at a discovery mechanism. It's Feedly, only not as good.
I hadn't realised how much hype surrounds so little that is actually new...
- giantrobot 5y agoOPML is/was criminally underused. I think that lies at the feet of Wordpress. Early Wordpress supported a blogroll but needed a plug-in for OPML support. Wordpress then moved blogroll support before finally removing it. The (arguably) most popular blogging system ignoring OPML meant feeds were much rarer than RSS. The rarity of OPML feeds kept them from getting any native browser support. Most of the time you only see them as a way to import/export a list of feeds from dedicated RSS readers.
- wardedVibe 5y agoSub-stack isn't a tech company, its a media outlet that focuses on monetizing semi-famous blog-writers. I guess it has less of a schtick than many media outlets, besides contrarian, "the mainstream is dumb" style takes.