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In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information

https://blog.burkert.me/posts/in_praise_of_syndication/
34•curioussquirrel•1h ago

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runningmike•31m ago
Simple is use your thunderbird mail to read RSS feeds. Check https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-subscribe-news-feed...
ggeorgovassilis•20m ago
I'm self-hosting FreeRSS [1] with Docker on a Hetzner VM. Fast, clutter-free, has everything I need.

[1] https://freshrss.org/index.html

nextzck•17m ago
I just bought a reseller plan from verpex host for $5/month. Can host unlimited domains and bandwidth with WHM. Access everything through cPanel and ftp. SSH on occasion.

Installed freshRSS in 1 min with softaculous

hn-ifs•8m ago
I love RSS. Like all the old web tech the user is in control. If I like a page/site I'll look for an RSS to keep up to date with it, if one doesn't exist I'll likely forget about it. I'm not signing up for email updates.
panstromek•7m ago
> As Facebook would push for more engagement, some bands would flood their pages with multiple posts per day

The causation is opposite, and it's the whole problem with chronological feeds, including RSS - chronological feeds incentivises spam-posting, posters compete on quantity to get attention. That's one of the main reasons fb and other sites implemented algorithmic feeds in the first place. If you take away the time component, posters compete on quality instead.

> The story we are sold with algorithmic curation is that it adapts to everyone’s taste and interests, but that’s only true until the interests of the advertisers enter the picture.

Yea, exactly, but as emphasized here: The problem is not curation, the problem is the curator. Feed algorithms are important, they solve real problems. I don't think going back to RSS and chronolgical feed is the answer.

I'm thinking of something like "algorithm as a service," which would be aligned with your interests and tuned for your personal goals.

thaumasiotes•2m ago
> The causation is opposite, and it's the whole problem with chronological feeds, including RSS - chronological feeds incentivises spam-posting, posters compete on quantity to get attention.

That doesn't make any sense. Quantity might make you more prominent in a unified facebook feed, but an RSS reader will show it like this:

    Sam and Fuzzy (5)
    Station V3 (128)
They've always displayed that way. You never see one feed mixed into another feed. This problem can't arise in RSS. There is no such incentive. Quantity is a negative thing; when I see that I've missed 128 posts, I'm just going to say "mark all as read" and forget about them. (In fact, I have 174 unread posts in Volokh Conspiracy A right now. I will not be reading all of those.)
nesk_•4m ago
I've ditched RSS feeds more than 10 years ago but I'm increasingly wanting to go back to them. Thank you for sharing this blog post, it'll help to get me started.

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