[HN Gopher] RSS as a Facebook alternative
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       RSS as a Facebook alternative
        
       Author : dgrin91
       Score  : 41 points
       Date   : 2021-03-09 20:23 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (thenewleafjournal.com)
        
       | paxys wrote:
       | Wait what happened to newsgroups?
        
         | rektide wrote:
         | newsgroups = big community spaces filled with activity
         | 
         | rss = a person or entity's personal space. which can also be
         | fed into a planet / aggregator to make a shared space.
         | 
         | they each have great uses, but rss maintaining the sense of
         | identity & ownership & knowability over the space is a huge
         | boon (to reader & writers both) imo, & where-as newsgroups have
         | always felt (reading or writing) like i was venturing off into
         | wild-lands.
        
       | D13Fd wrote:
       | RSS is great. I use it every day.
       | 
       | Monetization is an issue due to the general lack of ads and
       | tracking, but there are some possible solutions, like Ars
       | Technica's model of $50/yr for access to the full-text RSS feed.
        
         | MayeulC wrote:
         | $25. $50 is the pro++ version. i say this as a happy
         | subscriber. I know a few other sites that do the same, and
         | being able to access a plaintext feed is a huge plus to me.
         | 
         | Only the first image of Arstechnica's image is available in a
         | feed, though, and videos they sometimes embed in the header do
         | not show. I assume both are bugs, but I can open the page if
         | the article is interesting.
        
       | stanislavb wrote:
       | I love the recent resurgence of RSS.
        
       | colesantiago wrote:
       | Perhaps 'Facebook News' alternative rather than Facebook itself?
       | 
       | Unless you consider getting your friends cousins updates, and
       | liking their posts through an RSS feed as a Facebook alternative.
        
         | nicoburns wrote:
         | If there was an open standard api/protocol for
         | liking/commenting I reckon this could actually work quite well.
         | I guess you'd also need some kind of standard for identity and
         | "friending" too (perhaps something akin to Open ID).
        
           | ryukafalz wrote:
           | I mean, ActivityPub? That's basically what it is.
        
             | rektide wrote:
             | Yeah. One can go read the protocol. But the Activity
             | Vocabulary probably gives a good idea for the versatility,
             | the use of (core) ActivityPub[1]. ActivityPub is streams of
             | actions, most of which we know & are familiar with already
             | from existing social media.
             | 
             | [1] https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-
             | vocabulary/#activity-t...
        
         | lliamander wrote:
         | The pivot of Facebook from "here's a way to connect with family
         | and friends" to "here's a steady drip of 'engaging' content
         | made to generate 'likes'" is very interesting.
        
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