[HN Gopher] RSS as a Facebook alternative ___________________________________________________________________ RSS as a Facebook alternative Author : dgrin91 Score : 41 points Date : 2021-03-09 20:23 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (thenewleafjournal.com) (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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-03-09 23:00 UTC)