Feb 18, 2022, 5:23 PMhad to explain RSS to two fellow gen z-ers
me: its kind of like subscribing for updates on a website, before "following" was a thing.
them: oh, is that something new?
me: actually closed "following" on walled gardens, like twitter, kind of killed out a lot of RSS for our generation, but there are people who still use it and find it handy
them: wait, so i don't need to make an account?
me: no.
Feb 18, 2022, 6:08 PM
@pixouls
>wait, so i don't need to make an account?
🙌
@pixouls I still use it, in a reader app, instead of a newspaper or magazine. It's wonderful, and soooo much better than the utter chaos you're served by Twitter and Facebook!
I'm glad to see it making a comeback.
Also, I've been running into a lack of not-walled garden tools for this. They want it dead, which encourages me more.
Feb 18, 2022, 10:53 PM@pixouls 😃 it is always delighting to see when they figure out the old web was a bit clunky, but way cooler than the current silos.
@pixouls Gosh dang, this just makes me sad.
@pixouls RSS is amazing. Been using it for years.
Feb 19, 2022, 9:38 AM@pixouls I miss the time when every artist had a Tumblr an you could just look at all their art via an RSS-reader +__+
You could still do it with Bibliogram that generates RSS-feeds from Insta and Twitter but it doesn't work reliably
@jfml @pixouls You might want to check out RSS Bridge: https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge/wiki
There are public hosts available, too: https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge/wiki/Public-hosts
Feb 19, 2022, 12:39 PM@vinzv @pixouls Yeah, I think I've seen that but it looked rather complicated. Do you know if it works woth Twitter/Insta? I guess if you selfhost something like this it's less likelely to get rate-limted but then again you might need to fiddle with it when "the socials" change things on their end ...
The idea sounds really cool though, if artists are not on social media they tend to have websites without RSS-feeds (from Squarespace etc) nowadays.
Feb 19, 2022, 10:21 PMFeb 19, 2022, 1:01 PM@pixouls
I still love rss
Feb 19, 2022, 8:45 PM@pixouls I think I remember some hacky way to follow a twitter feed sans account, maybe even with an rss feed? Making a note here for next weekend
Jun 23, 2022, 7:42 PMJun 24, 2022, 8:33 AM@lanodan @pixouls Yeah, wiz stuff; anything really that gets around the "you have to be logged in to see more of this account" type of paradigm.
From the memory banks: there were a set of extensions for firefox that made shared accounts for closed-off sites available to anyone. That was exactly like it sounds like and also used in the same way, so that's why it's not around anymore.
Jun 24, 2022, 8:51 AM
Feb 20, 2022, 11:14 PM@pixouls@post.lurk.org im in gen z and i know what rss is? who are these people
secret conspiracy:
what if im not actually in gen z
Calling @Chartodon ...
May 15, 2022, 9:42 PM@pixouls
I just started using it myself. Back in the day, I just went to the websites, but this is nice as it strips any formatting and ads out. Looks better at work.
@pixouls
I think the last word / answer should be 'yes'.
Just sayin'... it's common logic error (if I'm not mistaken).
- so i don't need to make an account?
- yes
What do you think?
Jun 24, 2022, 1:52 PM@pixouls Thank you for spreading the word. I remain a loyal user and strong advocate for RSS.
Jun 24, 2022, 1:53 PM
This!
them: 🤯
@pixouls
I'm tail-end Gen X, but I love RSS feeds and use them for so many sites.