Apr 16
i just learned about the fucking power of rss feeds and rss readers
catch me never indulging in the algorithmic www again
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i just learned about the fucking power of rss feeds and rss readers
catch me never indulging in the algorithmic www again
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On RSS and Atom:
Go to https://go.dev/blog/ and get the url for the feed... should be simple, right? As you may've noticed, there's no button or link anywhere on the page! Why not?
This is exactly what I'm talking about when I say that the hard part of using feeds is discovery: not only do you have to find cool blogs, you've also got to deal with inconsistent feed advertisement!! =|:(
The astute among you might be screaming something about <link>s and <a>s with "rel='alternate'", and yes, those are certainly nice (and feed-discovery extensions are handy to see them), but they're not always obvious or easy to actually utilize. Especially in the <link> case where you're dealing with an invisible element in the document's <head>...
Now, lots of blogs do actually display their feed urls (after all, whatever webmaster might've even had to put in some work to get them there), but I've also seen blogs that don't even have the "rel='alternate'" attributes on the articles themselves, just the blog index (which isn't wrong or anything, just something to be mindful of).
Add on the fact that rss can be quite fragile at times, as well as the fact that there's seemingly little agreement on what extensions to use for what formats, and it unfortunately starts to make sense why feeds aren't exactly all the rage. =|:/
Also, surprisingly hard to find a good feed reader, lol. I just use thunderbird, but when I've looked for better, or server-side, readers, the ones I've tried out have been a worse experience overall. Feels a lot like the situation xmpp and matrix are in.
But I do love feeds, and I think you should too! This post was mostly spurred on by the above go.dev blog, so take it with a grain of salt considering the recency bias... Feeds are a really good way to experience the internet in my opinion! For a forgetful person like me, it's great to not have to bookmark a buncha websites and remember to manually check them, I just wait until they show up in thunderbird, and I check my email enough to see new entries anyway! =|:3 But even if you use a server-side reader, you've just gotta visit one link now, instead of N links.
I'm kind of addicted to the idea of an RSS feed. Obviously I have one running now for my website, but like, it's kinda like a thread? Or more specifically a way to serialize content from a website into an ordered thread in any way you want? That's so cool??? In the mainstream net, if I wanted to show my friends something I wrote or posted or said or whatever, I'd have to DM it to them or send it in a Discord channel. With an RSS feed I can just give them the link in whatever way is most convenient, and their reader will automatically bring them new things from me when I post about them. And they can do the same the other way around. And it can be between friends or the wider Internet public or a specific group or anything. This is so cool??? This is awesome??? Huh???
It's unfortunate that images don't get displayed in Bluesky RSS feeds. I follow predominantly artists on Bluesky, but I'm far more likely to check profiles and look at art when I'm on my computer.
I know I've already posted about this before, but I absolutely love blogs, RSS feeds, and podcasts.
Consuming information in this way feels so calm and refreshing compared to the frantic, fast-paced and addictive nature of endless algorithmic feeds that platforms like Instagram, TikTok, and Threads have.
I can open up my podcast or RSS feed reader and choose exactly what I want to listen to or read, rather than having content already chosen for me by an algorithm that's out of my control. In my not-so-humble opinion it's a superior experience. 😊
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I'm separating this question out from the thread because that post is long, and I don't want this to get lost.
Can anyone out there who creates tumblr ao3feed blogs help @kabrumithrun out?
Is the Fraidycat RSS reader not working for anyone else? It doesn’t show anything when I open the appimage.
https://fraidyc.at/
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