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rss is dead. and aggregating won't be your main issue anyway.
by 1oooqooq 1y ago
rss is dead. and aggregating won't be your main issue anyway.
- themafia 1y agoRSS is alive and well. I use it daily with dozens of sites and authors. It's incredibly useful, widely used, and well supported. Finding content is the issue. Unless I go directly to each site every day and scan for new articles I'm likely to miss them. If not for aggregators and RSS how else would this be accomplished?
- dbg31415 1y ago> RSS is alive and well That's a stretch. https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-rise-and-demise-of-rss/ https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-rise-and-demise-of-rss/ https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=rss https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=r...
- anthk 1y agoThe Conversation feeds say otherwise.
- colinsane 1y ago> [RSS] is a standard that websites and podcasts can use to offer a feed of content to their users, one easily understood by lots of different computer programs. Today, though RSS continues to power many applications on the web, it has become, for most people, an obscure technology. arguing that RSS is dead because the average person doesn't understand it is like saying HTTP's dead for the same reason. neither are dead: we've just abstracted them to the point that they're no longer the front-facing part of any interaction.
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- nickthegreek 1y agoIf you don’t use rss, just say you don’t use rss. I assure you that many of us do. It continues to deliver me hundreds of articles from dozens of sources day after day, decade after decade. my services that check rss, continue to run their automated tasks. It’s an amazing protocol and even when big corpos try and take it away, hacks come up to restore access.
- 65 1y agoMost news sites have RSS feeds. Wordpress ships with an RSS feed. And for sites that don't you can make your own feeds by selecting links on pages (such as how AP News doesn't have an RSS feed).
- JFingleton 1y agoRSS is the technological backbone that enables the distribution and subscription of podcasts...which by the way is massive at the moment. As others have stated, plenty of websites have RSS feeds.
- bpye 1y ago> As others have stated, plenty of websites have RSS feeds. It’s a bit of a mixed bag though - whilst some big websites still have an RSS feed, you can’t get the full article text, smaller blogs etc seem to be better in that regard.
- crtasm 1y agoThere are RSS readers which can automatically download the full article text. I use Handy Reading on Android which can also do so on-demand.
- account42 1y agoIs that really a problem though? I usually want to read something on the original website anyway as RSS is a lot more limited (or at least inconsistent) in what kind of styling and media is supported. What I care about is getting notified of updates to sites/people I follow without having to rely on a centralized gatekepper and RSS does that really well.
- rauli_ 1y agoThat used to be the case few years ago. Now it seems that all popular podcasts are hidden inside commercial services such as Spotify.
- esseph 1y agoNope Still get all of my podcasts via RSS. Several dozen.
- rhdunn 1y agoPodcasts tend to be available from different sources to extend their reach YouTube and Spotify don't offer RSS feeds, however other services like redcirle.com, megaphone.fm, anchor.fm, and audioboom.com all offer RSS feeds. Even Apple should as it has a set of iTunes extensions for RSS to annotate things like the episode number. I've been able to find RSS feeds for all the podcasts I listen to.
- esseph 1y agoHmm ironically it's how I'm reading this rn
- _Algernon_ 1y agoRSS isn't dead. I use it daily. Most podcasts — all if you subscribe to the philosophy that mp3s without rss aren't podcasts — are built on it. Most websites still provide a feed, even if the owner isn't aware of it.
- account42 1y agoRSS is alive and well.