I've recently rediscovered RSS and I'm in love with it. I just wish Meta wasn't a piece of fuck and let you add Facebook pages and Instagram accounts. there are some workarounds for the latter, but they're really finicky.
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member when all the big cool web 2.0 companies had public facing APIs?
That was just for the growth and acquisition phase, using the network effect to capture consumers and businesses, get them addicted and dependent on the product, and then build a wall around them to lock them into your platform.
It's a classic bait and switch, and if we didn't live in corporate dictatorships masquerading as "democracy" it'd be illegal.
Yep, remember when XMPP was a thing so you could chat with anyone no matter the platform?
It is very much still a thing, and my preferred chat protocol - because it is easy to host and unlikely to enshittify.
Yeah, I meant in the sense that Facebook and Google had also implemented it so you could just talk to anyone with any client.
I member when there was no official reddit mobile app, only third party clients, and they were so good.
Not an RSS solution, but in IG if you tap the "Instagram" logo at the top/right, a menu will pop up. You can select "following" to (mostly) see the accounts you're following (and in reverse chronological order.)
that requires having an account.
With bibliogram you can follow instagram pages in rss: https://sr.ht/~cadence/bibliogram/
Facebook pages used to work with rss bridge: https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge
With bibliogram you can follow instagram pages in rss
good luck finding an instance that works.
Facebook pages used to work with rss bridge
I'm well aware of the RSS Bridge and I use several of them hosted on the main instance, but how does "used to work" help? Facebook used to actually provide RSS feeds for their pages and they used to work, too.
You have to selfhost bibliogram, working for me, I usually get rate limited but get all updates once or twice a week.
There is a facebook bridge in rss bridge, for a long time it worked, I don't follow its development nowadays, maybe someone with some php knowledge can resurrect it.
How do you all discover new RSS feeds to subscribe to?
My way is simple and stupid. I hit F12, then search for “rss” in the html and copy the link
Most of the feeds I subscribe to came to me in one of two ways:
- I enjoyed reading an article posted somewhere else (Lemmy, etc.) so I sought out the feed of that publisher.
- Sometimes news outlets enter into agreements to republish each others articles. When they do this, the re-publisher will usually include a little blurb at the end giving credit to the original publisher. If a feed I'm already subscribed to has an article re-published from elsewhere then I click through and check out the original source to see if I want to follow them as well.
I use Feedly for discovery, they have a crap load of websites you can subscribe to even if the websites don't explicitly advertise RSS.
And then use the Feedly desktop website to get the actual RSS URL and put it in the client of your choice 🙃
Kagi Small Web, personally. Also a lot of people who blog on the Fediverse have RSS feeds, so discovery via Mastodon and such is good too.
Wordpress sites publish an rss feed by default at site.com/rss or site.com/feed, so there's a good chance a site you want an rss feed for has one even if they didn't intend to.
After spending lots of time trying to find feeds, learning this was super helpful
I use an Browser Addon that searches for RSS feeds, still a bit finiky sometimes but still better than manually guessing URLs
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I use an extension that searches the code on the page to find them. It puts a little number up, then when you click it you can copy the link.
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Unfortunately a lot of sites have ditched support for RSS over the past 10 years requiring tedious work arounds if you can get it to work at all.
I hope it can make a comeback but I'm dubious.
I use it, as both a reader and a publisher, but rss (in particular) could do with an update.
Google Reader was my goto and when they killed that I tried a bunch of others and none quite hit the same. Gutted that one hit the Google graveyard.
Classic Embrace-Extend-Extinguish move.
Wait until I show them my PHP BB.
Shot out to freshness, been using that for years! Self hosting it
I've been interested in trying out RSS again but I don't want to self-host. Can anyone recommend a RSS client (hosted, local, or whatever) that they like?
It can be as simple as just putting an app on your phone. I use feeder which is fine. Pretty bare bones, but in that way it's easy to learn and use.
I've also been meaning to try out an app called Nunti, which I heard about a while ago from this Lemmy post. It claims to be an RSS reader with the added benefit of an (open source and fully local) algorithm to provide some light curation of your feed. It looks interesting, but I haven't actually tried it out yet because I'm still deciding whether I want any algorithm curating my feed, even one as transparent as Nunti's. It's also only available through F-Droid right now, which is a bit of a barrier to entry.
The fact that it's only available through fdroid is actually a good thing in my opinion.
If it's open source, you could perhaps tinker with the algorithm. My main desires for rss feeds are:
- a way to filter out fluff affiliate link articles (e.g., 8 best gadgets on sale for prime day)
- a way to cluster articles on the same topic (i don't really need to read 5 articles about the same news item)
Any clue if nunti could do that?
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there are some publically available FreshRSS instances that you can make an account with, I personally use hostux. you can access it with the browser and any apps that support FreshRSS (in my case, Read You or Capy Reader on Android, and sometimes RSS Guard on desktop).
Thunderbird has RSS integrated, which could be quite neat once that synchronizes.
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I am using RSS and I love it
I just saw this article last week! I love RSS feeds and set up a bunch through my work email outlook client. They been there since like 2010 (yes I still have the same job...) and I barely touch them these days due to time, and some sites died, but it's still the quickest way to catch up on the news you want. Wherever I saw this posted last I saw a recommend for FeedFlow and have been messing with that phone app to try and make some ultimate new feed for myself.
We gotta bring back usenet servers and dare I say IRC and Telnet
SSH over telnet but IRC is still alive and kicking
My local news sites block RSS because they paywall all their articles to force you to buy a newspaper or pay twice as much for online access.
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