On Sep 16, 2019, at 10:18 AM, John Wilson jowilson@gmail.com wrote:
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.
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.
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?
Anyway, I decided to try and make a fake standard of "feeds.txt" -- https://trenchant.org/daily/2018/8/16/
~andre is using it so now it's a de facto standard. http://torrez.org/feeds-txt.html
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
(I also wrote a self-hosted RSS reader that nobody uses, https://github.com/adammathes/neko)