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I agree with you. While I love RSS and use it frequently, there are two things that I find that could be improved: 1. RSS doesn't help me find new interesting

by dereg 4y ago

I agree with you. While I love RSS and use it frequently, there are two things that I find that could be improved: 1. RSS doesn't help me find new interesting blogs and writers. One of TikTok's few virtues as a platform is giving algorithmic reach to creators who have no social reach. 2. My RSS collections have always been one of either I'm following a highly curated list that leaves me hungering for more content or I'm following a firehose that makes me miss the content I prefer. I stumbled across a website that does something like what the article describes, but for just tweets[0]. It's surprisingly compelling and gives me the feel of using StumbleUpon. I am eager to see more things like it. [0]: https://mood.surf https://mood.surf (no affiliation)

lonk11 4y ago
To help with discovery of new RSS feeds I use this mechanism for https://linklonk.com https://linklonk.com - when you upvote or submit a link, you connect (subscribe) to all users that upvoted and to all RSS feeds that posted that link. For example, if you submit this link: https://stratechery.com/2023/netflixs-new-chapter/ https://stratechery.com/2023/netflixs-new-chapter/ then you will get connected to two RSS feeds that posted that link: https://stratechery.com/feed/ https://stratechery.com/feed/ and https://hnrss.org/newest?points=100 https://hnrss.org/newest?points=100 (ie, the HN feed of items with >100 points) As you rate content you get connected to more and more sources. The way it solves the oversubscription problem is - whenever a user/feed posts something - your connection to them goes down slightly. As a result you see content from sources with the highest signal-to-noise ratio first. The differences from Artifact is: - Artifact uses implicit signals such as read time; LinkLonk uses your explicit upvotes. I think implicit signals are fine for entertainment content, but not for informational content. Time spent is not equal to becoming better informed. I think only you can be a judge of that. - Artifact uses an opaque AI algorithm optimized to do what they want; LinkLonk uses a transparent algorithm, where each recommendation comes from a feed or a user that you have co-liked items in common.
- dereg 4y ago
  Neat, I'll give this a shot!
adql 4y ago
> My RSS collections have always been one of either I'm following a highly curated list that leaves me hungering for more content or I'm following a firehose that makes me miss the content I prefer. Filtering helps but "i just like some type of content from that person" seems to be forever problem on every site. Like on youtube, you watched whole three videos of a guy cooking ? I will bomb your feed with random crap from his channel for next month or two!
paride5745 4y ago
I use Feedly for my RSS feeds and Flipboard for discovering new content. But yeah, I miss the old Stumbleupon...

by dereg 4y ago

lonk11 4y ago

To help with discovery of new RSS feeds I use this mechanism for https://linklonk.com https://linklonk.com - when you upvote or submit a link, you connect (subscribe) to all users that upvoted and to all RSS feeds that posted that link. For example, if you submit this link: https://stratechery.com/2023/netflixs-new-chapter/ https://stratechery.com/2023/netflixs-new-chapter/ then you will get connected to two RSS feeds that posted that link: https://stratechery.com/feed/ https://stratechery.com/feed/ and https://hnrss.org/newest?points=100 https://hnrss.org/newest?points=100 (ie, the HN feed of items with >100 points) As you rate content you get connected to more and more sources. The way it solves the oversubscription problem is - whenever a user/feed posts something - your connection to them goes down slightly. As a result you see content from sources with the highest signal-to-noise ratio first. The differences from Artifact is: - Artifact uses implicit signals such as read time; LinkLonk uses your explicit upvotes. I think implicit signals are fine for entertainment content, but not for informational content. Time spent is not equal to becoming better informed. I think only you can be a judge of that. - Artifact uses an opaque AI algorithm optimized to do what they want; LinkLonk uses a transparent algorithm, where each recommendation comes from a feed or a user that you have co-liked items in common.

dereg 4y ago
Neat, I'll give this a shot!

adql 4y ago

> My RSS collections have always been one of either I'm following a highly curated list that leaves me hungering for more content or I'm following a firehose that makes me miss the content I prefer. Filtering helps but "i just like some type of content from that person" seems to be forever problem on every site. Like on youtube, you watched whole three videos of a guy cooking ? I will bomb your feed with random crap from his channel for next month or two!

paride5745 4y ago

I use Feedly for my RSS feeds and Flipboard for discovering new content. But yeah, I miss the old Stumbleupon...