**gsteenss** @gsteenss · 2018-04-23T21:13:53Z

gsteenss @gsteenss

'RSS is due for a comeback. No ads. No suspicious javascript. Just the signal without the noise.' Now Is The Perfect Time For An #RSS Renaissance https://neflabs.com/blog/rss-renaissance/

Apr 23, 2018, 21:13 · Web · 122 · 121

**Hund** @hund · Apr 23, 2018, 23:09

**Hund** @hund · Apr 23, 2018, 23:09

@gsteenss Did it ever go away? Or am I just that distant from the regular world?

**AJ Dunevent** @ajdunevent · Apr 23, 2018, 23:31

**AJ Dunevent** @ajdunevent · Apr 23, 2018, 23:31

@gsteenss I'm with @hund, lol, I've not stopped using and relying on #rss since I discovered it!

**gsteenss** @gsteenss · Apr 24, 2018, 01:04

**gsteenss** @gsteenss · Apr 24, 2018, 01:04

@hund
nope, it never did. but some people may need a reminder it solves heluva lot of their current problems...

**Nick** @nick0515 · Apr 24, 2018, 06:57

**Nick** @nick0515 · Apr 24, 2018, 06:57

@gsteenss @hund I've never seen the point of RSS. I just go to the source to read stuff. I get that others fund it useful though. Maybe I'm missing something though?

**Hund** @hund · Apr 24, 2018, 07:10

**Hund** @hund · Apr 24, 2018, 07:10

@nick0515 @gsteenss Come back when follow several hundred sources. :P

**Nick** @nick0515 · Apr 24, 2018, 07:25

**Nick** @nick0515 · Apr 24, 2018, 07:25

@hund @gsteenss yeh I guess that's why I've never needed it. I just don't read that many different sources :D

**Riley but cybre** @Riley@cybre.space · May 28, 2018, 12:31

**Riley but cybre** @Riley@cybre.space · May 28, 2018, 12:31

@nick0515 @hund @gsteenss My biggest RSS folder is "People." It's full of little blogs for a bunch of different topics that update infrequently. RSS lets me get every update without having to do a typically pointless manual check.

**Jaan** @jaan_paul@mastodon.social · May 09, 2018, 00:06

**Jaan** @jaan_paul@mastodon.social · May 09, 2018, 00:06

@hund @gsteenss it's probably people thinking that the death of Google Reader killed RSS 🤷

**Hund** @hund · May 09, 2018, 00:10

**Hund** @hund · May 09, 2018, 00:10

@jaan_paul That's probably true. :)

**vinzv** @vinzv · Apr 24, 2018, 12:31

**vinzv** @vinzv · Apr 24, 2018, 12:31

@gsteenss No full article feed at https://neflabs.com/atom.xml
Oh the irony.

**Andy Lundell 💭** @apLundell@octodon.social · May 08, 2018, 23:19

**Andy Lundell 💭** @apLundell@octodon.social · May 08, 2018, 23:19

@vinzv @gsteenss

...and that's a big part of what killed RSS. Or at least weakened it and made it vulnerable.

RSS'sbig advantage was putting everything you read in one place. If it's just a list of links, then it has no value in a world where social media exists.

**Andy Lundell 💭** @apLundell@octodon.social · May 08, 2018, 23:54

**Andy Lundell 💭** @apLundell@octodon.social · May 08, 2018, 23:54

@vinzv @gsteenss

Oh, actually it looks like they intended it to be a full article feed, but somehow screwed it up. The content is there, but mangled.

**Tom K** @tk@mastodon.social · May 09, 2018, 00:19

**Tom K** @tk@mastodon.social · May 09, 2018, 00:19

@gsteenss Are we taking odds on when Medium removes RSS feeds because "our users are mostly using the app anyway"?

**danielle~!** @00dani@vulpine.club · May 09, 2018, 00:23

**danielle~!** @00dani@vulpine.club · May 09, 2018, 00:23

@gsteenss but why would we use rss instead of atom tho

that article literally links to its own atom feed, calling it rss 🤔

**whonose123** @whonose123@infosec.exchange · May 09, 2018, 15:48

**whonose123** @whonose123@infosec.exchange · May 09, 2018, 15:48

@gsteenss I hadn't noticed it was gone ..

**MRU 0001 (Sean)** @freakazoid@retro.social · May 27, 2018, 20:10

**MRU 0001 (Sean)** @freakazoid@retro.social · May 27, 2018, 20:10

@gsteenss I never left RSS.

**gsteenss** @gsteenss · May 27, 2018, 20:11

**gsteenss** @gsteenss · May 27, 2018, 20:11

@freakazoid
many of us never did! ;-)

**Libreture** @kevinbeynon@mastodon.social · May 28, 2018, 00:23

**Libreture** @kevinbeynon@mastodon.social · May 28, 2018, 00:23

@gsteenss

This id the bit that clicked for me in the article:

"So the very idea of RSS - obtaining content from a website without having to visit the site itself - is due for a comeback. No ads. No suspicious javascript. Just the signal without the noise. It's not perfect privacy, but it's one step back and two steps forward in the right direction."

Makes even more sense to me now - no additional malicious software if it all conforms to an accepted and safe standard.

**Frank Little** @I_Will_Wobble@anticapitalist.party · May 28, 2018, 01:49

**Frank Little** @I_Will_Wobble@anticapitalist.party · May 28, 2018, 01:49

@gsteenss @pzmyers some of us never stopped using it in the first place.

No regrets.

**Adam** @ink_slinger@mastodon.club · May 28, 2018, 04:12

**Adam** @ink_slinger@mastodon.club · May 28, 2018, 04:12

@gsteenss RSS is my jam, partly because it's janky old tech that can't really be easily monetized or tracked.

**vanyok** @vanyok@mastodon.social · May 28, 2018, 04:56

**vanyok** @vanyok@mastodon.social · May 28, 2018, 04:56

@gsteenss absolutely. And so I do use RSS. But there's natural resistance to it and willingness to kill it by advertisers & co. So that's just another fight which might be refueled...

And I'm personally fully for RSS. 😀

**💫Alyx** @gatewave@cybre.space · May 28, 2018, 07:53

**💫Alyx** @gatewave@cybre.space · May 28, 2018, 07:53

@gsteenss the thing with RSS is it encourages me to spend even more time than i currently do (already an unhealthy amount) consuming content online. so while the idea appeals to my knowledge hoarding tendencies i can't make RSS be healthy for me.

**Oreolek 👾** @oreolek@icosahedron.website · May 28, 2018, 08:03

**Oreolek 👾** @oreolek@icosahedron.website · May 28, 2018, 08:03

@gsteenss RSS feeds actually can contain ads, tracking pixels and Javascript. Very few RSS readers can cut that.

**Albatroz Jeremias** @ajeremias@coletivos.org · May 28, 2018, 09:24

**Albatroz Jeremias** @ajeremias@coletivos.org · May 28, 2018, 09:24

@gsteenss
enjoy mastodon rss https://mastodon.social/tags/fuckoffgoogle.rss and https://social.coletivos.org/@ajeremuas.rss :awesome:

**jaj** @jaj@mastodon.social · May 28, 2018, 16:16

**jaj** @jaj@mastodon.social · May 28, 2018, 16:16

@gsteenss @kurtm I only read blogs through #RSS. No RSS, no read! ATOM is okay though

**Tuxicoman 🆓 🍥** @tuxicoman@social.jesuislibre.net · May 28, 2018, 21:01

**Tuxicoman 🆓 🍥** @tuxicoman@social.jesuislibre.net · May 28, 2018, 21:01

@gsteenss and you read mastodon through rss ;-)

**juh** @juh@chaos.social · May 29, 2018, 05:11

**juh** @juh@chaos.social · May 29, 2018, 05:11

@gsteenss And Tiny Tiny RSS is a cool RSS Reader. https://www.hasecke.eu/post/tiny-tiny-rss-shaarli/

µ @mu@chaos.social · May 30, 2018, 19:46

µ @mu@chaos.social · May 30, 2018, 19:46

@gsteenss RSS is still my favorite way of subscribing to blogs and webcomics