呱呱豆豆
had to explain RSS to two fellow gen z-ers me: its kind of like subscribing for updates on a website, before "following" was a thing. them: oh, is that something new? me: actually closed "following" on walled gardens, like twitter, kind of killed out a lot of RSS for our generation, but there are people who still use it and find it handy them: wait, so i don't need to make an account? me: no. 49 comments
citc
Happy to continue use of 'newsboat', > 2000 feeds no problem!
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Neil Brown
@pixouls I *love* RSS. It's amazing how people are now so conditioned to accept walled gardens, and handing over personal data, that open alternatives are such a surprise.
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@neil @pixouls i've been appreciating my rss feeds so much more since i left facebook... the only advantages the latter had were the centralized platform meaning i didn't have to check a separate thing and there was a unified interface to leave and read feedback the lag and jank from all the trackers etc. meant that it started getting more convenient to switch tabs/scroll around to look for the comment box/enable js for that site again/etc., nullifying even those advantages 
The Book of Kels
@carcinopithecus @neil @pixouls Might I recommend NewsBlur as a reader? It's good for Facebook refugees, since aside from the RSS side, it's got a feed of items shared by other uses from their own feeds. Which makes a nice blend.
The Ferridge
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The Book of Kels
@TheFerridge @carcinopithecus @neil @pixouls My problem tends to be there are a lot of sites without RSS, and that's sad. 
StroomAfwaarts
@pixouls I still use it, in a reader app, instead of a newspaper or magazine. It's wonderful, and soooo much better than the utter chaos you're served by Twitter and Facebook! 
Russ Sharek
I'm glad to see it making a comeback. Also, I've been running into a lack of not-walled garden tools for this. They want it dead, which encourages me more.
Dam
@protodrew @pixouls true that. Long life to RSS (which also deliver podcasts and could actually deliver more: hint data) 
calligraffiti
@pixouls Keep up the good fight! First the RSS feeder, next thing weechat and GPG exchange parties!!  
jfml ✨ Jonas Laugs
@pixouls I miss the time when every artist had a Tumblr an you could just look at all their art via an RSS-reader +__+ You could still do it with Bibliogram that generates RSS-feeds from Insta and Twitter but it doesn't work reliably
vinz
@jfml @pixouls You might want to check out RSS Bridge: https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge/wiki There are public hosts available, too: https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge/wiki/Public-hosts
jfml ✨ Jonas Laugs
@vinzv @pixouls Yeah, I think I've seen that but it looked rather complicated. Do you know if it works woth Twitter/Insta? I guess if you selfhost something like this it's less likelely to get rate-limted but then again you might need to fiddle with it when "the socials" change things on their end ... The idea sounds really cool though, if artists are not on social media they tend to have websites without RSS-feeds (from Squarespace etc) nowadays. 
Mario Breškić
@pixouls I think I remember some hacky way to follow a twitter feed sans account, maybe even with an rss feed? Making a note here for next weekend
rolenthedeep
@pixouls wait, how is the blockchain involved? How could something like this possibly exist without a blockchain??? 
Gerhard Hallstein
@pixouls @rozina @COD @a Claes unto himself
Das RSS-Konto von Thunderbird hat für mich den Nachteil, dass man zum Abonnieren eines Feeds die gültige Feed-Adresse kennen muss. Und die ist bei vielen RSS-fähigen Seiten nur mühsam bis gar nicht zu finden.
呱呱豆豆
forget about me having to explain RSS to my gen-z peers, i had to explain it to my professor today 
Nova
@pixouls@post.lurk.org im in gen z and i know what rss is? who are these people  
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@pixouls
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@pixouls - so i don't need to make an account? - yes What do you think?
Jeremy Sarber
@pixouls Thank you for spreading the word. I remain a loyal user and strong advocate for RSS.   |
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