[HN Gopher] Unexpected, Useless, and Urgent, or What RSS Gets Right
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Unexpected, Useless, and Urgent, or What RSS Gets Right
Author : whatrocks
Score : 68 points
Date : 2020-10-26 18:18 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| ssivark wrote:
| I think "notmuch" is actually a great solution to handle email
| (or a corpus of articles such as RSS) with a combination of
| search/filters and tags. The interface is also ripe to easily
| plug in ML based filters or other social curation filters (Eg:
| re-shared by my friends) if we manage to build good ones.
|
| If only we had a pleasant graphical interface on top (which
| played nice with HTML email), rather than needing to use text-
| based interfaces, I think it would be a HUGE improvement over
| most mail clients out there.
| happytoexplain wrote:
| High inbox volume is humorously labeled "infinite scroll", but I
| don't get the low-volume label: "medium-rare"?
| sp332 wrote:
| In context, I think it means "not too often".
| aleken wrote:
| Medium-rare is how you want your beef, no?
| [deleted]
| ewmiller wrote:
| I came of age in the era of budding social media platforms, and
| that was my primary way to consume feeds and news online for the
| past 10 years or so (I include reddit in the "social media"
| category, especially more recently). Now, being older and having
| witnessed the many many problems that social media companies have
| exacerbated in society, I've started looking for other ways to
| read what's going on in the world.
|
| This search has brought me to RSS. I use the same reader app as
| the author, and I absolutely love it. No addictive feed design,
| no ads built to manipulate me based on my mood and scrolling
| patterns. I hope RSS sticks around.
| empiko wrote:
| You need to actively curate your subreddits to get the best
| experience. When there is a disparity between your subreddits
| (in number of posts or their flashiness), few subreddits will
| flood your whole feed with useless junk. E.g. I have subscribed
| to EarthPorn (I like nice pictures of Earth naturally), and
| suddenly 50% of my feed becomes panoramas. That is nice to look
| at for a moment, but it is really bad for your reading. But if
| you are able to find few relevant subreddits that do not have
| that many users, it can be actually really great for
| discovering interesting stuff. You just need to be really
| aggressive with how you curate your subscriptions.
| swebs wrote:
| No, we need to just cut our losses with reddit altogether.
| Each year, it just gets more political and more
| authoritarian. Even if you find a good subreddit, its only a
| matter of time before it gets usurped by the usual powermods
| that each control 300+ subreddits and bans anyone who
| disagrees. The admins will never do anything about them since
| it's hundreds of people willing to perform free labor for
| them.
| perardi wrote:
| You kids these days.
|
| I started using RSS in, I believe 2003, back when Mac OS X apps
| looked like this:
|
| https://ranchero.com/images/nnw/progress.jpg
|
| We synced our RSS feeds via FTP or .Mac, _and we liked it_.
| wlesieutre wrote:
| For modern macOS and iOS users, Reeder 5 came out about a
| week ago and is pretty nice.
|
| No .Mac syncing, but it does support iCloud!
|
| NetNewsWire (from parent comment's screenshot) is also still
| around. Plenty of great RSS reader options.
| Fnoord wrote:
| NetNewsWire is even FOSS.
|
| It supports only Feedbin (itself FOSS but supports non-self
| hosted) and Feedly though. I want to self-host. TANSTAAFL
| and either I get used for profiling/upselling (Feedly) or I
| need to pay money while I can self host (Feedbin).
|
| Reeder 4 is also good, I tried it (for free) right before
| Reeder 5 got released. It supports a whole lot more than
| NetNewsWire, including self hosting services FreshRSS,
| Reader, and Fever (deprecated). It also has support for
| Pocket.
|
| So I went with Reeder and got FreshRSS installed.
|
| On Android I settled with FeedMe, but honestly I haven't
| found a slick one which works with FreshRSS.
|
| I could settle with tmux + CLI + Browsh. In that case,
| consider Newsboat. It supports a myriad of (self-hosted)
| RSS services. But not the ones Reeder supports...
| sdepablos wrote:
| In 2009 I bought my first smartphone, the HTC Magic. It was
| also the first smartphone sold by Vodafone Spain, who had
| zero experience with phones where you could actually use
| internet, so they offered uncapped contracts. To make things
| worse: - Android was just a few months old - Apps were not
| optimized for using as little data as possible - I was REALLY
| into RSS, with hundred of feeds, and RSS apps where
| continually polling for changes.
|
| The rest is history: my first month with a smartphone - May
| 2009 - I consumed 10GB of data and I received a few calls
| from the Vodafone people
| pmoriarty wrote:
| For a more technical discussion of what RSS gets right (or not),
| see:
|
| https://nullprogram.com/blog/2013/09/23/
| gorbachev wrote:
| My take on the problem of filtering crap while still allowing the
| unexpected useful content to come through is filtering out
| everything unwanted.
|
| Back in the Usenet days I solve the same problem with liberal use
| of filters in nn. I could filter out any thread with disruptive
| participants, or using keywords against titles/post content.
| Other than the horrible UX for defining the filters it was
| actually working quite well.
|
| I wish there was more RSS readers with advanced filtering
| capabilities. I haven't tried Feedly's mute filters feature yet.
| On paper it looks like exactly what I'd need.
| timbit42 wrote:
| QuiteRSS has filters.
| leokennis wrote:
| My RSS reader (Feedbin + the Reeder app) really is my little
| corner of coziness on my phone or computer.
|
| Three times a day I spend 10-20 minutes to skim through the
| headlines and fully read the interesting stuff.
|
| So in 30-60 minutes per day, I stay up to date on all important,
| interesting and worthwhile stuff going on. It's fantastic.
| lliamander wrote:
| Anyone have recommendations for an RSS Reader for Android?
| Specifically, I'm looking for one that:
|
| - doesn't have advertisements or tracking
|
| - doesn't require an account
|
| And I am _definitely_ willing to pay for it.
| timbit42 wrote:
| Flym has no ads, no account and is free.
| drdeadringer wrote:
| I use Podcast Addict on my [Android] tablet and Smartphone.
| Free with ads, cheap for no ads.
|
| RSS for whatever you want: podcasts, comedian tour schedules,
| webcomics.
| aitait wrote:
| I host my Tiny Tiny RSS Reader and use this on Android:
|
| https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.ttrssreade...
| reedlaw wrote:
| Feeder:
| https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.nononsenseapps.feeder/
| superkuh wrote:
| As far as infinite scroll goes it's a matter of how many RSS
| feeds you pull down. My opml feedlist is almost 2 MB at this
| point and almost recreates the infinite scroll feel of a
| centralized social media aggregator.
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