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       re: RSS
       April 29th, 2021
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       sloum just wrote about RSS [0] wondering what happend to it and
       why nobody links to their feeds anymore. It's a good question.
       I have an RSS feed on my blog and my labs blog, but I don't have
       a link in the webpage to them. The <link rel='alternate' is in
       there.
       
 (TXT) [0] sloum - RSS
       
       I do publish the feed links on cosmic, but that's sort of
       a byproduct of doing it on gopher where there's no link element to
       do it behind the scenes. So why don't I link to them on more
       sites? I think it's partially habit. Browsers just used to expose
       RSS feeds and subscription buttons so naturally in the browser
       interface I got used to it. When they stopped that I didn't
       retroactively promote it on my pages.
       
       Now that I'm thinking about it actively, that's pretty stupid. I'm
       going to spend some time to add feed links back onto my pages
       soon. The attack on RSS/Atom has been ongoing and should be fought
       on all levels including individual action. Google Reader shutting
       down and the major browsers removing feed reading were arguably
       the biggest blows to the standard, but the efforts haven't won out
       yet. Podcasts have a stronghold still and there are still plenty
       of readers out there. I'll do my part.
       
       If you want my blog & labs feed, here they are to copy/paste:
       
         https://blog.tomasino.org/index.xml
         https://labs.tomasino.org/index.xml
       
       Oh, and this gopher phlog has a feed at:
       
         gopher://gopher.black/0/rss.xml
       
       which you can reach via proxy or by piping it through curl if your
       rss reader can't do gopher.