17 Sep
2019
17 Sep
'19
4:30 a.m.
Erin: I agree with your RSS assessment. I always thought that Twitter's other success (besides being a central location) was because it was "Casual RSS": Don't need a title, don't need a picture, can be what you want. I was amazed at how those requirements for content creators would cause a lot of friction when training faculty & staff in RSS' power years.
Adam:
~andre is using it so now it's a de facto standard.
I think this needs to be a shirt or sticker.
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Adam Mathes wrote on 9/16/19 10:12 PM:
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>> On Sep 16, 2019, at 10:18 AM, John Wilson jowilson@gmail.com wrote:
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>> As I was reading all the responses coming in last night, I realized, I want a list of RSS feeds. I want to have a Tilde Club folder in my RSS reader with all your blogs. I tried to follow links as people were mentioning them, looking some folks up through google and what not and I realized, well, I could just ask.
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>> I know, I know, we haven't updated our blogs in the past 10 years. This is okay. Because the beauty of RSS is that it's there, waiting for you, when you are ready to post again.
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> This is great - feeds of Real Web Sites from Real People is still a thing I can get behind. Looking forward to the OPML file.
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> The RSS discoverability problem bugs me, even though it has long since been "solved" by social networks. But what is tilde.club other than a re-contextualization of the problems and solutions we left behind, as a reminder that what we needed was in POSIX all along?
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> Anyway, I decided to try and make a fake standard of "feeds.txt" -- https://trenchant.org/daily/2018/8/16/
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> ~andre is using it so now it's a de facto standard. http://torrez.org/feeds-txt.html
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> I also decided to try and make a bunch of software related to it but didn't. But tilde.club folks are a highly targeted demographic that might care about this sort of thing
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> (I also wrote a self-hosted RSS reader that nobody uses, https://github.com/adammathes/neko)
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