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The '00s were such a wonderful time, the explosion in open access information, mashups (how I miss mashups!), easy publishing and the reach you could get from y
by samwillis 3y ago
The '00s were such a wonderful time, the explosion in open access information, mashups (how I miss mashups!), easy publishing and the reach you could get from your sofa. RSS is the epitome of that, it's such a shame we have ended up with these walled garden social publishing platforms that lock our content down.
This, adding the RSS icon to the address bar, was an inspired move to surface discoverability. Compare that with the fight to get Apple to surface the availability of PWAs!
The big thing that has changed since that time is the monetisation, these walled platforms have had to instigate revenue share with large creators. But still, the wish for a simpler more open web is in the background. There is evidence of a swing back that way (the fediverse, blue sky?), I just hope "big business" doesn't destroy it (the rumour of Facebook embracing the fediverse...).
RSS isn't dead, it's the backbone of podcasts, but it's such a shame our Twitter feed, our Facebook, or even our Twitch isn't available as RSS.
Back in '06, my "mashup" was a social feed aggregator, it gave you a single "homepage" with all your activity from Myspace, Facebook, Reddit, Digg, Flickr, and many other sites. A lot of that was built on RSS, and you could add any RSS fead to your page. Sadly it went nowhere, but I learnt a lot...
- jakecopp 3y ago> RSS isn't dead, it's the backbone of podcasts, but it's such a shame our Twitter feed, our Facebook, or even our Twitch isn't available as RSS. In case you didn't know - you can append .rss at the end of a Mastodon profile url to get an RSS feed of it!
- ozarker 3y agoI've been discovering different tools to make the content I consume available via RSS. Some of those tools: nitter: Alternative Twitter frontend that provides RSS feeds teddit: Alternative Reddit frontend that provides RSS feeds (Reddit itself still has RSS feeds, we'll see how that plays out though) rss-bridge: Can generate feeds for a ton of different sites. I use it for Twitch feeds. invidious: Alternative YouTube frontend that provides RSS feeds It's been refreshing to subscribe to the feeds I want to see and not have "recommended" content stepping all over what I want to see. Recent trends make me worried some of these services are going to go away in the near future though.
- jjordan 3y agoShout-out to the Livemarks / Foxish plugins which gives you RSS support on your Bookmarks toolbar. Still nothing better IMO for quickly browsing dozens of headlines across dozens of sites. Firefox: https://github.com/nt1m/livemarks/ https://github.com/nt1m/livemarks/ Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/foxish-live-rss/nbhdikhnaigcdlamenbgkmllgmfnngoi https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/foxish-live-rss/nb...
- nordsieck 3y ago> invidious: Alternative YouTube frontend that provides RSS feeds Youtube natively offers per-channel rss feeds.
- throwaway14356 3y agothe pupdates are a mess
- ixwt 3y agoThey do, kinda. You have to go looking for it. In my testing only provides the latest few videos, not the entire back catalog. But I have a naive understanding of the RSS protocol I didn't see how to get more because they didn't expose a "next" link for the RSS feed.
- aaronax 3y agoThe only place I have ever seen a "next" link for an RSS feed is WordPress. Sort of a pagination thing you can do with the URL.
- dugite-code 3y agoRSS isn't supposed to be an Archive, It's an activity feed. Best practice has providers trimming the XML file to the latest X items. You can stylize and embed things like a next link in an RSS feed but that should just point you to yet another XML file and it's not part of the standard.