• enebe@lemmy.ml
    24·
    2 years ago

    IMHO, blogs are one of the few sources of original content left on the internet. A humble Android tablet with Readify gives me better and less addictive content than any “social network” or “mass media”.

    And it’s on us to keep RSS popular and widespread, so they don’t kill it.

    • electrodynamica
      43·
      2 years ago

      RSS is kind of a shit protocol. They killed Aaron Swartz for trying to make it better. ActivityPub is a more modern version but the development of that protocol was also disproportionately influenced by in the wrong direction.

      • Bilb!@lemmy.ml
        81·
        2 years ago

        RSS is a format for data (often served over HTTPS), not a protocol. I don’t really understand comparing a data format to a federated communication protocol.

        • electrodynamica
          5·
          2 years ago

          ActivityPub is barely more than a format either. In fact, the things that are supposed to be protocol are completely disagreed about by all the major softwares, making it useless as a protocol anyway.

            • electrodynamica
              6·
              2 years ago

              If you are benchmarking, sure, it’s above par. But it had much more promise than that, and perhaps my mourning of it’s compromised potential comes off as dismissive. I was on the standards committee for it and researched decentralized social network protocols full time for many years, so it’s a bit personal for me. If only people knew just how much better things could be. I see it as a personal failure that I’m not better at communicating that vision.

          • electrodynamica
            4·
            2 years ago

            It does have a few minor improvements. But that’s mostly just because it’s newer. It’s important to understand that the problems with RSS have nothing to do with it being XML. We should set and even demand a much higher bar.

            In data science, serialization matters very little.

            • @noc.social
              1·
              2 years ago

              I get that, but lets be real here: json is just easier to read and write than xml. Im not sure what problems @electrodynamica has with rss though, because it seems pretty solid.

        • electrodynamica
          2·
          2 years ago

          Only partly. He was opposed to many of the things that ultimately became it’s shortcomings.

  • Lvxferre@lemmy.ml
    12·
    2 years ago

    RSS/Atom is comfy and does what I need it to do: it tells me when a page is updated.

    • kevincox@lemmy.mlM
      1·
      2 years ago

      I use an RSS-to-Email service to send updates to me. I then filter them into folders such as Not Important and Videos for me to read when I have some downtime. (And a few feeds go to my Inbox for fast action).

  • noodlejetski@lemmy.ml
    8·
    2 years ago

    man, I wish. from what I’ve read Facebook has been making it difficult to access its content via RSS and I’d guess most of the services on the trolley do the same.

    a bit off topic, but is there a Nitter/Invidious-like front-end for Facebook? for when you’d like to check pages of the businesses that use it as their main website, for example.

  • gladiatorchocolate@lemmy.ml
    7·
    2 years ago

    I’ve been trying to find a good reliable rss feed reader for android for a while now, still haven’t found a good one.

    • @noc.social
      15·
      2 years ago

      Reddit, youtube, blogs, etc all use RSS. Almost all content online has an RSS feed.

    • electrodynamica
      62·
      2 years ago

      Mostly pubescent thinkers of all types. Same for Reddit and all the others with varying approaches to herding / shepherding.

    • Lvxferre@lemmy.ml
      3·
      2 years ago

      I do. Mostly /a/, /ck/, /g/ and /vg/.

      Yes, the place has been infested by Stormfront refugees, /pol/ is cancer central undergoing metastasis and spreading cancer everywhere, and /b/ managed to go from “this shithole was never good, but it’s funny” to “this unfunny shit needs to improve to become a shithole”. And the whole site has been redditised, so users there spend more time assuming words on the others’ mouths than actually discussing the topic.

      However, it’s still a decent place to discuss random stuff. Your typical Anon is dumb as a brick, but at least not dumb as a snoo. Entitled whining leads you nowhere there so most entitled users either leave or stop whining. And there’s still some sense of humour left, not touched by the alt right.