![]() I don’t read them all but I get lots of interesting content and it all comes directly to my Emacs instance. My daily feed averages about 90 articles, which I regard as suggestions. But whether they do or not, RSS is here to stay. Email users, like RSS users, can scan the subject lines and either read the article, delete it, or stow it for later, just like with RSS.Įven though their business model is based on subscriptions, there’s no obvious reason it couldn’t be adapted to work with RSS and I’d love to see that. One of Usher’s points is that sites like Substack operate by distributing their content by email and that’s not sustainable but it’s not clear her claim of unsustainability is true. What we need is for more people to realize what serious people have always known: if you have something consequential to say, you probably can’t say it in 140 (or even 280) characters and you need to either start a blog or use something like Substack. The problem isn’t a lack of good RSS readers, nor do we need a new protocol. There are plenty more, including the reincarnation of Reeder. Click to read Deer Reader, by Xandra Libris, a Substack publication. Contains Adult content, reader discretion is advised. Non Emacs users have Feedly, which is also an excellent RSS reader. Furry fiction, reviews and commentary from a queer perspective. ![]() We’ve been enjoying the excellent Elfeed for years, which is, as Usher demands, open source, flexible, and extensible. If you’re an Emacs user, it’s hard not to snicker. Nikki Usher has a post that claims this is the year of RSS and that all we need is a new improved RSS reader or maybe RSS protocol. If you’re the type of person who thinks something significant can be said in 140 characters, it may have for you but the rest of us are happily using RSS daily to notify us of interesting content that we may want to examine. If you aren’t a silly person, you know that RSS hasn’t gone anywhere and is still helping the knowledgeable keep up with developing news, blog posts, and other interesting content.ĭespite what you may have heard, Twitter has not replaced RSS. Irreal has considered RSS many times, especially since Google’s liquidation of RSS reader, There’s too many posts to cite here just do a search for “RSS” on the Irreal site to see them.
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