I've always wanted an RSS feed of only the interesting stories, blog posts, and longreads that make it to the Hacker News front page. Thus, I am happy to announce that I've just made and released one: https://feedle.world/hacker-news
Chyba jestem na takim etapie, że dalsze odwlekanie powrotu do czytnika RSS to robienie samej sobie krzywdy...Polecicie/odradzicie jakiś sensowny na Mac OS (jakby dodatkowo nadawał się też na czytnik ebooków bazujący na androidzie, to jeszcze lepiej)? Szukam czegoś, co z jednej strony nie będzie przeładowane, ale z drugiej będzie dość funkcjonalne (możliwość tworzenia kategorii, bezproblemowego kopiowania linków czy tekstu, zasysania treści a nie tylko tytułów itp.). Polecicie coś?
Scratching my head at an Emacs issue: Elfeed-org doesn’t seem to load my feeds. I’m not sure why, everything looks OK. I have my feeds.org and I have the path defined in rmh-elfeed-org-files and it does show the value it’s supposed to have.
What @Vivaldi don't say in their release blog post of version 6.7 today: if you use the updated Vivaldi Feed Reader to watch subscribed youtube channel videos, you don't get to see any ads. Not sure how long this will work until Google shuts shuts this circumvention down, but right now if you're sick and tired of youtube ads, just use Vivaldi's feed reader (it's a great browser/mail program for everything else anyway)
Note that if you do that, you may want to consider other ways to support the folks who produce the videos, (which is generally the case with adblocking. There's no such thing as a free lunch. Make sure that people who create things you enjoy get something in return).
What are some popular #rss services? I'm not looking for standalone applications, I already use one of those. I'm more curious about things that currently exist that were like google reader or like newsblur?
> Alternative search engines are neat, as are RSS feeds. OpenOrb is a self-hosted app which allows visitors to search over a list of blogs you love. If you put your 10 favourite blogs in there, it'll search just those blogs and not show you any sponsored content or machine-generated garbage.
#Threads reminds you after 30 days of sharing to the fediverse that you’re doing it and gives the option to go turn it off if you don’t want it anymore.
@matt@tchambers This discouraging popup isn't making me very hopeful.
To me, Fediverse integration is an open API, not some weird sharing thing they present it to be. It doesn't remove safety or add it by giving the user an option. The same content filters Meta is using to remove spam and unwanted content work just as well if not better for content coming from Fediverse.
My litmus test is, that if Meta doesn't enable #RSS for all public accounts, they are not embracing open web.
@matt@tchambers ... and to continue a little bit, #RSS is a good litmus test, because they could turn on right now. It's a known entity. They can put sensible rate limits etc. in place and we can consume their content without that app of theirs.
But that's exactly what they don't want.
By making open-web APIs cumbersome they can own more content. Most brands like the NBA etc. aren't going to turn on Fediverse sharing if it is opt-in, and they also own the discussions around topics like that.
In case you have been wondering why I have kept quiet -- I've been experimenting reading feeds on a FreshRSS instance as an alternative to social media. Hope it sticks.
When Spotify entered the podcast world, audio producer Alex Sujong Laughlin was wary — and with good reason, since back when she was a social media editor working at The Washington Post, she saw the devastating effect some private tech companies have had on media and journalism. She's sad to be proved right. "Spotify — along with many other companies — wants to create a closed ecosystem for the creation, distribution, and consumption of podcasts, bypassing RSS technology altogether because that would allow them to harvest more listener data to leverage with advertisers," she writes in this story for Defector. Luckily, she says it's not too late to take back our feeds. "You don’t have to understand the technology of RSS to choose to listen to your podcasts on an open app. You can just choose to do it." [Story may be paywalled]