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clede@podcastindex.social

@brentsimmons Didn't Google shut down RSS in 2013?

paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange

2025: OMG RSS is still around!
2026: RSS is still around. Thank heavens!

lesley@mastodon.gamedev.place

@brentsimmons It's surprising how many people are using RSS. I something bumps into people in real life who use it.

I feel that people say "RSS is dead" because RSS users don't talk back (unlike, say, on social media) and it's hard to know they exist, but there is a reason it's still widely supported across so many blogs and sites.

wjmaggos@liberal.city

@brentsimmons

ActivityPub is next gen RSS, adding boosts and replies. I don't want to subscribe to a million feeds or podcasts, but I would like to follow a lot of people and see what articles, videos and podcast episodes are most popular with them.

drdirtbag@mountains.social

@brentsimmons Praise be to those who baked it into various CMSs back in the day, where it silently continues to do its job, beneath the notice of web devs and Chief Growth Officers. (And thanks for NNW.)

c_salem@mastodon.social

@brentsimmons We Salute you Aaron Swartz.

radio_alelopatia@kolektiva.social

@brentsimmons RSS might be the best protocol ever invented. It's the backbone of modern podcasting and nobody even knows it. The fact that nobody knows about it shows how great it is. It never breaks, it hasn't been enshittified... It just silently works in the background without bothering anybody. That's how tech should work. The more you hear about something, the more it sucks... Take Meta for example. It's dystopian level bad at every level of their stack... Can't stay out of the news because it is always fucking something up. RSS would never do that to us.

banshee7076@hear-me.social

@brentsimmons

2014: This will be the year of Linux.
2015: This will be the year of Linux.
2016: This will be the year of Linux.
2017: This will be the year of Linux.
2018: This will be the year of Linux.
2019: This will be the year of Linux.
2020: This will be the year of Linux.
2021: This will be the year of Linux.
2022: This will be the year of Linux.
2023: This will be the year of Linux.
2024: This will be the year of Linux.
2025: This will be the year of Linux.
2026: This will definitely be the year of Linux

johnmacintosh@swiss.social

@brentsimmons If that happens, I will cancel my Internet access.

l_inadapte@framapiaf.org

@brentsimmons
RSS − like punk − never dies

trashboypro@eldritch.cafe

@brentsimmons god I hope not. An RSS Reader is literally how I manage all of the text-based social media websites right now and it works far better than their respective apps

iamdtms@mas.to

@brentsimmons A content of a webapp does not depens on appearance and operation. Web MVC works fine. Content syndication too.

nsonic@troet.cafe

@brentsimmons @timo I am about to Write my own little rss aggregator / reader because none that i know has the features i like to have ‍️

RSS is such a great thing!

anparker@mastodon.bsd.cafe

@brentsimmons I heard the same thing about e-mail.

ben@kwiecien.us

@brentsimmons what about ROUS's

danielpree@chaos.social

@brentsimmons @timo live it und used it ever since

stairjoke@indieweb.social

@brentsimmons @nicksherman

2014: OMG you still use email?!
2015: OMG you still use email?!
2016: OMG you still use email?!
2017: OMG you still use email?!
2018: OMG you still use email?!
2019: OMG you still use email?!
2020: OMG you still use email?!
2021: OMG you still use email?!
2021: OMG you still use email?!
2022: OMG you still use email?!
2023: OMG you still use email?!
2024: OMG you still use email?!
2025: OMG you still use email?!
2026: Newsletters move to blogs with RSS feeds.

florianziegler@mastodon.social

@nSonic @brentsimmons @timo I can recommend @FeedCity!

nsonic@troet.cafe

@florianziegler @brentsimmons @timo @FeedCity None can display rss feed of forums in a good way, like grouping by title. In a forum you might get updates in only 5 threads but the rss feed is flooded with 50 items because about 10 new posts in each thread. Showing each thread only once with a shaded color to indicate it’s a group and a badge with the item count in each group. Tapping a group to expand/collapse or navigate to a list of items in that group.
I might write it myself ‍️

poetaster@mastodon.gamedev.place

@brentsimmons it's like MIDI's little cousin.

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