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Michael Tae Sweeney@mtsw.bsky.social |
Tech bros *hate* RSS because it is a way for information to go directly between authors and audience without them being able to extract rents in between.
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Axat
@axat.bsky.social
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Agreed
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@doktorno.bsky.social
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There are Plugins for browsers that are replicating the old good live bookmarks from early version of Firefox.
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Jon S.
@coffeestaub.bsky.social
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Dang I need to set up some RSS
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Scream
@screamqueen084.bsky.social
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Ughh I miss google reader
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Brad Westness
@brad.westness.cc
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Legit one of the best things about this site is they made everyone's feed available as RSS
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Gregg
@greggc.bsky.social
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Xactly.
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Foxhack / Dave Silva
@foxhack.bsky.social
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I remember, just before RSS was considered bad by most websites including Google, that a few feeds I followed added ADS embedded in the feed previews. Even back then sites were desperate to make a buck off of it.
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Mike R
@mreills.bsky.social
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Google reader was the best. I still use feedly sometimes lol
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Todd Rowell
@toddrowell.bsky.social
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Honestly can’t see any other option (not kidding)
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Pyotr
@pyotr.bsky.social
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Smh web standards encourage aggregation, the more varied and spread the sources of information the greater the need for “one convenient place” to index all the feeds
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Cathy W
@cathyw.bsky.social
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"Google killing Reader fundamentally changed the Internet for the worse" at least feels like a true statement.
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Jason D. Salvagni
@trisalvagni.bsky.social
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I smell the sour odor of a16z on this.
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Space Man
@spaceds8008s.bsky.social
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went back to rss over the last 2 years. Been WAAAY easier to keep up with people\news online that way.
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tsalaroth
@tsalaroth.bsky.social
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I hate that they're called techbros. they rarely know anything about tech beyond that one niche they learned about and latched onto. Whenever they talk about something else, it's immediately clear they have zero technical ability beyond that one thing.
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Iron Curtain (Samuel Abram)
@ironcurtainyc.bsky.social
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RSS is a protocol and not a platform, and that pleases me, @mmasnick.bsky.social, and Cory Doctorow.
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Steven W. McDougall
@swmcd.bsky.social
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My understanding of RSS is that clients poll servers for updates. It seemed to me that that was never going to scale.
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Charles Stewart
@chalst.bsky.social
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Tech bros are not just capitalists but any SV type. SV types who are not capitalists generally like RSS and its ability to avoid rent-extraction.
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@rokejulianlockhart.bsky.social
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I hate "RSS" because it is merely a misnomer used to refer to myriad implementations of unstandardized Atom. I like Atom.
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Fluo Ride
@stupidreasons.bsky.social
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Is rss dead? I use it every day
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~ domb ~
@domb.bsky.social
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FreshRSS w/ full-text-RSS go BRRRRR
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Tyler
@electriceden92.bsky.social
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Or to automatically harvest information that can then be fed to their algorithms/models or sold to third parties
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Comfortably Numb
@numb.comfortab.ly
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That reminds me: Bluesky has launched RSS feeds
openrss.org/blog/bluesky...
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Mike Jurney
@jurney.bsky.social
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“RSS is dead” was a mantra the biz folks were chanting at Google as early as 2006. What they meant was “RSS is impractical to monetize”, which is what they mean now.
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Harter Lancet
@velikizeko.bsky.social
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Which is why I love my feedly and still miss Google Reader. It's such a more efficient way to gather the writers, news, opinions, cartoons, and essays quickly.
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David Mohring
@nzheretic.bsky.social
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Unless you do it on the client/reader end AKA Micropayments in the form of the Street Performer Protocol.
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Lee R Watson
@leerwatson.bsky.social
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just doesn't post
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Big Dumb Asshole
@superstud69.bsky.social
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Yyyyyyuppppp
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Luca Salami
@lucasalami.bsky.social
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*Introducing RSS blue.* Oh wait thats Patreon.
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Bender Rodríguez
@plungerman.bsky.social
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i love RSS. i was devastated when googler reader was shut down. theoldreader is an adequate replacement.
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Michael Paulauski
@mike10010100.bsky.social
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Well, I mean, yes, but also...how do you monetize RSS as an *author* trying to put out articles via RSS?
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Devilpants
@devilpants.bsky.social
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worthless parasitic middlemen shit their pants with fear when they realize that people are starting to notice how worthless and parasitic middlemen actually are
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Hank Hill (age 34)
@30andover.bsky.social
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Yep
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Fetish Artist
@fetishartist.bsky.social
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One of the best aggregates we had in Pr0n News was The Floating Word, which gave you the latest news right from #AVN, #Xbiz, & the news bloggers. RSS fed right onto the page & publicists could see where they placed in one spot. Drove me nuts when it went stopped updating.
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Mark K
@fajitadoctor.bsky.social
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“RSS on the blockchain” Now you have my attention. Do you need any seed funding?
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Kirsten Andrews
@kwafurther.bsky.social
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I still miss my Google Reader-based media diet.
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Samuel
@craelis.bsky.social
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Any good guides/apps to set up a cross platform RSS feed?
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Dan 🌹
@pretendan.bsky.social
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I legitimately don't know how to RSS anymore but it's definitely time to find out.
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Sean Eric Fagan
@kithrup.bsky.social
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I'm a tech bro (er, am I more of a tech dad by this point?) and I *love* RSS.
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Sheena
@ksheena0.bsky.social
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I will continue using newsboat, a terminal RSS reader, for my news until it is pried from my cold dead hands.
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Chad Levinson
@chadlevinson.com
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This is why google killed the massively popular Reader product
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trc
@trcovell.bsky.social
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Old enough to remember when people shared through personal blogs, No apps required to read, sign-up was optional, and the bloggers could accept ads, not run ads, or run ads and get money from them. I'm still a believer in personal blogging - a sign of old age now.
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John Poulos
@jpoulos.bsky.social
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www.anildash.com//2024/02/06/...
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Francine James
@franjames.bsky.social
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RSS was when I was reading the most webcomics, the most litmags, the most niche interest sites. Then Google Reader shut down and I lost ALL of them. All because a few assholes wanted to squeeze pennies out of me.
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algi
@algi.bsky.social
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They hate when technology solves a problem.
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the mjl (michael j leblanc)
@themjl.bsky.social
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IMO, your observation generalizes pretty well. A lot of Solved problems got "Unsolved" in the name of rentiers these past 20+ years. Example: old USENET (NNTP) was based on a distributed local server architecture that makes Mastodon look like AOL or Compuserve. Completely unmonetizable.
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Julie - TrexPushups
@trexpushups.bsky.social
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The RSS/blog era was so much better.
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js
@js0.bsky.social
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I don't hate RSS, but I am annoyed by the amount of traffic I get from feed subscriptions to blogs that haven't existed in years.
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Edward Muller
@freeformz.me
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BuT iTs NoT bLoCk ChAiN!!!!
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Blue Cloud Bird
@bluecloudbird.bsky.social
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Steelman: They hate the fact the internet got centralized onto social media platform The personal web idea is a shadow of what the internet was The amalgamation of everyone and filtering by medium has killed what the internet could have been
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Intrusive Thot
@apricity.bsky.social
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This is also what killed a lot of semantic web and open data formats. We were building a world that was about people exchanging info with each other and being able to automatically do useful stuff with it. But selling ads made more money.
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Tamara Keel
@tamslick.bsky.social
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Wait, you mean I can “follow” people without an intermediary trying to profit from my interests? Madness! How will the oligarchic techbros afford another yacht if we let this go unchecked?
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Dennis O'Dea
@dennisodea.bsky.social
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If "every web site is accessible by a third party web browser using a common standard" wasn't already how the internet worked it absolutely would never be allowed today
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milo
@mtmilo.net
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I've always wanted to implement an alternative to Facebook events via RSS but private events are always my sticking point
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Miles [KotBox]
@kotactually.bsky.social
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Ice never done much with RSS, but I've always been interested in it. Any recommendations on what app/program to start with?
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batboi🦇
@batboi.bsky.social
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Learned too recently that RSS is in part thanks to Aaron Schwartz. It's such a bummer we lost him so soon, he really was the kind of guy the internet needs right now.
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Trans Concrete Private Ltd. (jasmine/dvnt)
@deviantsemicolon.bsky.social
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Pry RSS from my cold, dead hands
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Mike Puterbaugh
@mike.puterbaugh.net
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Not me, *I* hate RSS because it was conceived in the era where every problem was solved by adding more XML.
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Dennie Edwards
@dennieedwards.bsky.social
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Sadly, RSS pretty much died with Google Reader.
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Steve Uncle
@the-barely-jew.bsky.social
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The "RS" stands for "Real Simple." If you can't complicate something you can't make money selling a "simple solution"
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chris
@chrishazfun.bsky.social
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Even in the case of stuff like Patreon RSS, tech bros will still hate on it cuz they can't upsell from something they're already getting in a generated feed.
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Daniel
@escargotpro.bsky.social
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I think he's pro rss tho
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ekana stone
@ekanast.one
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Still use RSS, got my own RSS service running on my raspberry pi home server. It's so nice to just read through it like a newspaper full of publications I actually want to read.
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Rémi
@remhi.bsky.social
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fundamentally, tech bros aren’t programmers, nor engineers, nor inventors. they don’t care about the future of humanity or the wellbeing of people they work for. they don’t even have any kind of passion or drive. they are all greedy and glorified car salespeople
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Annie
@anniew.bsky.social
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After all this time I'm still upset at what was done to Aaron Swartz. Didn't understand all the technical aspects but the threat of 35 years in prison was obscene.
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Graham
@grims.bsky.social
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sorta, and the pedantry is interesting i think. sorry if it isn’t for you. VCs and Execs hate it for that reason. Average tech ppl either don’t hate it or consider it an unfortunate failure because it was too simple. No one got promoted working on RSS. Solves the problem. Too well.
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Gavin G Whiz - Writer, DVD Apologist
@gavingwhiz.bsky.social
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One of my favorite things about the podcast industry is despite the sheer amount of big money going into walled gardens, in the end everything shifts back to "open RSS is the most efficient way to get your production downloaded by the most people" and all exclusives inevitably end up crawling back.
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