@jimmylittle@Green_Footballs If the full post fits in an #RSS / #Atom#webfeed reader and you've got such a feed setup, there might be no reason for anyone to visit the site directly for them which would skew the statistics.
@JohannessNilsson personally, I just wanted to beat #Floppinux and actually make something that is more practical than just existing and spitting out text on screen.
OFC long-term I do want to expand this further and make something that is still smaller than #TinyCore yet also practical to run on my #Atom#Z520-powered #VaioP11Z or any of those shitty #StickPC's and #Trash-#Tablets that have a #Z8300 and just 1GB of RAM and that already felt painfully slow on #Windows8 when they got released.
Other than looking at server logs, is there any way to tell how many people subscribe to an #RSS feed?
Are there any big aggregators which give out that information?
I've been a little quiet about #Emissary - in between moving and refactoring one of the core libraries, it's honestly been pretty broken for a little bit.
But my desk is set back up and I'm excited at making some progress again. Now, two libraries that power emissary are also nearing completion, so others can build on this work without having to implement the whole server.
Sherlock converts HTML pages into #ActivityStreams documents using any and all meta-data available: #JSONLD, #WebFinger, #MicroFormats, #RSS, #Atom, #JSONFeeds (with more coming soon). Any format it can identify gets parsed and normalized into a standard-looking ActivityStreams doc, which gets passed up the toolchain to Hannibal.
I'm so excited to see this stack start to deliver real results soon.
@baldur A lot has been said about the supposed decline in RSS/Atom feeds but I would argue that, because WordPress produces RSS and Atom by default, there have never been as many feeds available as there are today. Often even without the site owner knowing about them.
Trusting #Twitter with any important corporate, organizational, emergency or other public service functions is like trusting Donald Trump to pay his bills. Only far worse.
You're not #social when you hamper sharing by removing feeds. You're happy to have customers creating content for your ecosystem, but you don't want this content out - a content you do not even own. Google Takeout is just a gimmick. We want our data to flow, we want RSS or #Atom feeds.
We want to share with friends, using open protocols: RSS, ATOM, #XMPP, whatever. Because no one wants to have your service with your applications using your API force-feeding them. Friends must be free to choose whatever software and service they want.