I have a Theory that nearly everything bad about the contemporary internet can be traced to the demise of Google Reader. RSS is grassroots and open, so it encourages everyone to create and encourages everyone to consume that content in the way that works best for them. There are fewer gatekeepers for what you put out into the world, but the corollary is that everyone else can curate what they want to receive. Without that ethos, the production and distribution of content is increasingly corporatized, making the internet ever more like broadcast TV. And the consolidation of the platforms to host and distribute that content means that curation is increasingly in the hands of the companies, who apply global policy standards (RIP Tumblr porn!) and don't invest in user-controlled filters (cough Twitter cough). Even that last bastion of open distribution, podcasting, is feeling the pinch.

On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 11:34 AM Alexander Cobleigh <alexander.cobleigh@gmail.com> wrote:

i just recently got into using RSS after the Devastating Blow of Google Reader's murder. i decided to self-host https://miniflux.net/ on my server. it was quite nice (until my server crashed for reasons unknown, i have to look at what happened to the postgres tables for miniflux now and i just haven't bothered yet)

server woes or no, i love rss

On Mon, 16 Sep 2019 at 20:24, Tim H <tim@hithlonde.com> wrote:

I love this idea! I'll add my blog feed there.

For my reading, I am hosting an instance of https://tt-rss.org/ . I've been using it ever since Google Reader passed away. *shakes fist at the destruction that caused*

-Tim Habersack (http://tilde.club/~timotheus/)

On 9/16/19 10:18 AM, John Wilson wrote:

First off, if you haven't already checked it out, go look at Aaron Moman's (~admoman) Tilde Club RSS feed. It's a feed of everything that has been updated on Tilde Club as it happens, and it's available at this URL:

http://tilde.club/~admoman/feed/tilde.club.atom

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.

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.

So I made a google form: https://forms.gle/W3hTGU4ksUE6ExjE7

Go fill out the google form. Put in your RSS feed, wherever you think your "main feed" is. If you have more than one feed, put the extra feeds in the "extra feeds" question.

After a day or two, I'll take your responses and make an OPML file, suitable for importing into your favorite RSS reader.

In the meantime, in this email thread, post your favorite RSS tips and tricks and whatnot. I'll go first. On linux, I like Liferea, on Mac, I like the newly rebooted Net News Wire. On Windows 10 I have not found anything I like. Anyone using an RSS reader on Windows 10 that they like?

Thanks!

John Wilson (~crazybutable)