Yo, podcasters. Please make the rss of your show easy to find. Don't just point at a subscription platform. Some of us don't use mobile apps. #podcasting#rss
RSS is maybe coming back into fashion. So it's a shame that it is often implemented inefficiently, with #feed pullers apparently routinely ignoring HTTP cacheing headers, conditional gets, and all the hints that RSS allows too, for those of us not running 24h rolling news podcasts!
"Technology can realize greatly intensified forms of continuous democratic participation, but such applications must be openly developed and publicly owned."
Actually we had a Garfield Classics RSS that stopped working in December too...it might be easier to just set up an RSS feed of my own that randomly pulls from a pool of images? Is there a good tool for that? I have some spare cycles on my VPS
@helpers@heluecht Einen Cirkle #RSS-Feeds anzulegen, bekomme ich noch hin 😉. Doch was ist der einfachste Weg, alle Feeds vom bisherigen RSS-Reader nach Friendica zu importieren?
I started heavily using Feeder for #RSS feeds a couple of years ago. Prior to that I had used RSS but stopped for some reason. Feeder has become one of the top apps I use on my phone, according to Android. I spend at least an hour a day in Feeder. RSS lets me selectively consume news from sources I choose to follow. Instead of manually traveling to 50 news websites a day, or subjecting myself to Google News, I just check my RSS feeds whenever I want news.
I also follow bloggers whose opinions I care about, but who post infrequently. I don't have to manually go to their website to check on them. When they post, Feeder lets me know
If a site doesn't offer an RSS feed, screw 'em. I just don't follow them.
RSS is empowering. Some feeds suck but those get pruned out, and better feeds take their place.
RSS is such a useful and proven thing. It blows my mind that more people around me simply don't know about it or don't use it.
What are your most favourite tech blogs that are also available via #RSS? Currently going through my subscribed feeds, looking for fresh content to add. 👀
Starting a new thread on the best internet, the kind where people are creating just because they can and not because it's a side hustle or something that will deliver some benefit to them. I call it the #JustBecause internet
Can #podcasting be made to work with #ActivityPub as well as #RSS? Then podcatchers could work like a #Mastodon client, allowing us to interact directly via comments, favorites and spreading around the best episodes via boosts. #podcasts
update: it exists but no podcatcher fully supports it yet.
I've removed cdr.cz from my #RSS reader. It started out as a portal about optical media and then changed to general IT news. Now it only publishes clickbait #AI generated articles: lots of text and no information value.
This is going to happen more and more, and it's important to curate such sources out of our feeds.
@KingShawn I keep up by categorizing followed accounts into #Mastodon lists and have started to remove non-VIPs from my home feed. I subscribe to #RSS feeds for posts from accounts I don't want to miss at all.
Dear #RSS people,
I have a question: Is there an iOS solution where I can add RSS feeds to that...
... does not require me to make an account, and
... does not come pre-filled with newsfeeds or anything really?
What I want is a thing that, when I tap on the little square on my home screen, gives me a list with the feeds I've subscribed to and nothing else. No tracking, syncing, nothing. Could be an app or something else.
On my laptop I'm using Feedbro on Firefox, which sadly, as I understand it, is no option on the phone.
I have already tried to find something but couldn't. That's why I am asking here now. I am no tech person and may not have thought of a very obvious solution. I'd be very happy if you could point me in the right direction.
Thank you!
I get that there are reasons for why people don't want to provide full text and want people to go to their website. I'm okay with that.
For everyone else: if you don't have a strong reason not to, please consider offering the full text so people like me who are frequently offline for longer periods of time can enjoy your writing.
So because of my perpetual frustration with Cloudflare, I’ve made a thing. It’s a bit like FeedBurner, but with an emphasis on fetching feeds that are blocked by poor Cloudflare configuration. If there’s a feed that you can’t read in your RSS reader of choice, consider trying it here. It’s a work in progress, but I would appreciate help building my pool of blocked feeds. Currently I can read all the feeds I care about except 1.
It happened, so it can happen again – a journey through Auschwitz
We must firmly block – with our bodies and our souls and the ways that we lead our lives – the pathways of accumulative radicalisation that lead to Auschwitz, writes Harsh Mander.