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mofongo wrote

Many, many years ago, back when rss was still popular and link aggregators where just a niche, Google launched their own version of RSS which they called Google Feeds.

It quickly became popular because it supported images, you could add any page even if they didn't have an rss feed, it was easier to manage and websites started to like it because it only showed a small portion of the article forcing you to go to the site (and view ads) when at the time you could read the full article through your rss program.

With an this, Site by site stopped caring about being rss friendly, rss apps stopped being supported. Then when Google Feeds was at its peak of popularity, Google killed it with barely a notice. That's how Google neutered RSS.

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xox OP wrote (edited )

yes but that was many many years ago and we now have transparent and accessible ways to fund open source development in a sustainable way. We also have the rise of federated networks that could now include RSS to help normalize it as well. Theres so many people hunting for how to stop relying on google and facebook we just need to fund the infrastucture and make sleek enough and super convenient on iphones etc while remaining FOSS and copyleft

nice name btw eres de RD?

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mofongo wrote

Haha, si lo soy. First time someone guesses RD, people always say PR.

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Sid_Knee wrote

there's still good apps for rss. Everyone should use them instead of relying on reddit for links

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tuesday wrote

The problem is that not every site has an rss feed anymore and the design of some sites make figuring out how to make an rss feed really hard.

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Sid_Knee wrote

that's fair enough, but most do. Anyway all goods don't want to make an issue out of it, just wanted to say I find it a useful way to gather info

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roarde wrote

An answer is to create a truly free CMS/CME that even more people can use, which does RSS by default.

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zoom_zip wrote

you have to rely on the site to make their content readable, and they don’t want to do that because then they don’t get ad clicks

also open source rss feed readers really suck

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nsopegasusyou wrote

Web scraping to make your own feeds for sites without them is just a notch better. Scrap all the web in one day, including videos and podcasts, then disconnect to read at your pace without algorithms dictating what you have to do.

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