I'm not completely versed on the subject, but from my understanding RSS was actually intentionally killed off in a premeditated manner as it allowed users to choose how they interacted with the endless feed of streams that were emerging from some social media corners of the 'net. They wanted control, complete control, over what you would see and what you would have to scroll for hours to see and what you'd never see even if you scrolled forever. There was also some beef between Atom vs RSS I guess, which contributed to its downfall. But I remember using shit like Google Reader and having a level of control unimaginable to propriatery feeds like FaceBook and InstaGram.

So I say, bring it back! Lets have an RSS Renaissance, (I guess this is technically an XML doc, but it severs the same purpose). I've been wanting this to happen for years now, this is actually a fairly political issue and I hope everyone takes the correct side on it

  • Rem [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    Okay I clicked it and it just turned into a gigantic block of code with some very old messages I once received in there, is that what's supposed to happen?

      • TheCaconym [any]
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        4 years ago

        You put it into a RSS reader; a software that fetches new items from remote sources regularly and present them to you in a centralized place in a readable way (and you can influence how those items are displayed).

        So you could have, for example, a centralized place where you can access new articles from various blogs, your new chapo chat messages, and other similar items.

        • Rem [she/her]
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          4 years ago

          So I copy and paste that block of text into a certain program, and it'll turn that plus any other websites I've done this for into a single feed? That's kind of interesting.

              • TheCaconym [any]
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                4 years ago

                You're welcome :af-heart:

                I didn't mention it but of course there are mobile RSS readers app too. Here's one that looks pretty good for Android: Feeder. It's on the awesome f-droid alternate app "store" (all apps are free so not really a store), Open Source and without any ads or tracking, as is the case for all f-droid apps.

        • jurassicneil [any]
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          4 years ago

          Interesting. I wonder if it can include the posts here as well. Would be kinda neat.

          • TheCaconym [any]
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            4 years ago

            It does, see my other answer. There's a RSS icon in all communities and even on the "all" listing, and you can pick the sorting too.

            • jurassicneil [any]
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              4 years ago

              Yo that's awesome. I might actually try this out, thanks!

              @Beatnik please convey my respect to all the devs. Great job, seriously.