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RSS feeds can be broken because of
- expired SSL certificates
- timeouts caused by slow servers
- misconfigured firewalls
- servers going down
- change feed URLs
- feed parsing failures
- deleted feeds
- deleted websites
Fraidycat is an app for Linux, Windows or Mac OS X - but which can be accessed from a local browser or a Tor onion site - and is a tool that can be used to follow folks on a variety of platforms. But rather than showing you a traditional 'inbox' or 'feed' view of all the incoming posts - Fraidycat braces itself against this unbridled firehose! - you are shown an overview of who is active and a brief summary of their activity.
Is it maintained?
3 feeds:
- no feed: a couple of static pages about the organization. They are great as a source of truth, for timeless content and for diving deep into a topic.
- slow feed: a blog, newsletter or magazine for medium to long form content. . They tend to be medium or long form content and allow deeper thought processes. Slow feeds only try to get our attention occasionally.
- fast feed: a page with smaller more frequent content pieces, that people can refresh, come back to or even subscribe via RSS or activity pub. Fast feeds are a powerful force that tends to pull people in.
I also tried a Client Side Reader and got into the same issue: CORS blocks requests for other websites.
I now build my personalized feed as a part of this blog’s build process
The author got it working at https://matklad.github.io/blogroll.html; and mark the most important one on https://matklad.github.io/links.html
It is kept simple.
Having a public blogroll also means the followed blogs get page rank back!
Instead of an OPML file, the author use a list of links. https://github.com/matklad/matklad.github.io/blob/ea7bc5161d7b2bc12a7a004408caaefb509b9f92/content/blogroll.txt
The code used is a snippet.
Links in RSS works. So we can use RSS for more than "following new content".
A feature: provide default formatting without relying on third party tools or extension.
It just feels like we have a dozen Band-Aids wrapped around a problem that used to be solved.
I totally agree.
The wiki page of the Atom feeds on indieweb.org
How the search engine manages RSS feeds to update its index.
Originally the plan was to put a simple RSS feed in the site inspection view, though it turns out feed data is very useful for a search engine in discovering new links. The feed view is still a nice addition and a good way of ensuring that the feed discovery and retrieval is actually working well.
JSON feeds is the best? It has more features.
By heart the RSS and Atom for HTMLishness.
Especially when things like XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) come into the mix and your feed becomes a lovely looking web page!
Le logiciel peut être hébergé sur son infrastructure via Docker.
!Instead of catching up, my feed reader behaves more like opening a book."
Here is Jeremy's feedback on RSS feed reader.
From Lucy Bellwood:
I have a richer picture of the group of people in my feed reader than I did of the people I regularly interacted with on social media platforms like Instagram.
You can single-handedly disenshittify your experience of virtually the entire web, just by switching to RSS, traveling back in time to the days when Facebook and Twitter were more interested in showing you the things you asked to see, rather than the ads and boosted content someone else would pay to cram into your eyeballs.
Because blogs are much quieter than social media, there’s also the ability to switch off that awareness that Someone Is Always Watching.
In the end, social media (Mastodon) best's algorithm is when the only algorithm at work in my feed reader— or on Mastodon—is good old-fashioned serendipity, when posts just happened to rhyme or resonate.