 Today, the good people of the world commemorate the passing of Google Reader eleven short years ago on July 1, 2013. To honor their memory (and in leiu of flowers) please add an RSS, Atom, JSON or equivalent feed to your web site and keep building towards a web that connects people in meaningful and positive ways. 55 comments
 @zachleat I still have an #RSS feed — does that count? ☺ https://www.draketo.de/rss-feed.xml And RSS feeds for those sub-pages that change regularly: And #elfeed is one of the most efficient ways to stay up to date:   @zachleat can I cheekily note that Vivaldi for desktop includes a feed reader (and offline mail client) out of the box? https://vivaldi.com/features/feed-reader/ No? OK, sorry then. xxx  @zachleat Btw that’s the software Aaron Swartz originally programmed - and still is the fastest/easiest in daily reading for me.   @zachleat Real story, not ended with alternates: how about news reader's nowadays? Multiple target's? Google News for political, local and world news. Feedly RSS desktop and device for specific consumption. Google Discovery on device for fresh personal news harvest. What is today's best practice for knowing what interesting but leave behind the BS?☝️  @zachleat I wish that I could still leave virtual flowers at the Google graveyard site 💐 @usamainsights I use https://feedbin.com/ which uses the web and does not require a specific operating system @usamainsights @zachleat feedly is the most well-known, I suppose. Like Google reader (that it originally was built on) but better. I think theoldreader still exists also. Both web-based and like Google Reader. Feedly has an App as well.  @gazorg @usamainsights @zachleat as a paying user of https://theoldreader.com/ I highly recommend it. @rogersm @usamainsights @zachleat i can recommend Feedly for the same reason, but I liked theoldreader when I tried it. Many years ago...  @zachleat: I have a WriteFreely-based blog in Polish, and with much gladness I shall inform you that I have my own RSS feed, too.  @zachleat apropos, it's also Enshittification Day https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/110640317152562997   @rianmurnen @feedbin feedbin is great (I am a subscriber!) but it’s missing a lot of social and feed discovery features @zachleat Google Reader was simultaneously a boon and a bane. Boon: You were no longer limited to reading your feed on the one computer that your reader software was installed on. Bane: Fuck you if one of the RSS feeds you followed didn't observer the insane restrictions that Google Reader arbitrarily and absurdly imposed on all RSS feeds, in direct violation of the RSS standard!  @zachleat and today people are celebrating the (earlier, 2010) birth of friendica, a fediverse platform that also supports adding rss feeds as contacts (I don't use that feature, rss2email is a better fit for my own lifeflow, but it's nice that the option exists) |
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