<story><title>RSS Autodiscovery (2006)</title><url>https://www.rssboard.org/rss-autodiscovery</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ozarker</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been discovering different tools to make the content I consume available via RSS. Some of those tools:&lt;p&gt;nitter: Alternative Twitter frontend that provides RSS feeds&lt;p&gt;teddit: Alternative Reddit frontend that provides RSS feeds (Reddit itself still has RSS feeds, we&amp;#x27;ll see how that plays out though)&lt;p&gt;rss-bridge: Can generate feeds for a ton of different sites. I use it for Twitch feeds.&lt;p&gt;invidious: Alternative YouTube frontend that provides RSS feeds&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s been refreshing to subscribe to the feeds I want to see and not have &amp;quot;recommended&amp;quot; content stepping all over what I want to see. Recent trends make me worried some of these services are going to go away in the near future though.</text></item><item><author>samwillis</author><text>The &amp;#x27;00s were such a wonderful time, the explosion in open access information, mashups (how I miss mashups!), easy publishing and the reach you could get from your sofa. RSS is the epitome of that, it&amp;#x27;s such a shame we have ended up with these walled garden social publishing platforms that lock &lt;i&gt;our&lt;/i&gt; content down.&lt;p&gt;This, adding the RSS icon to the address bar, was an inspired move to surface discoverability. Compare that with the fight to get Apple to surface the availability of PWAs!&lt;p&gt;The big thing that has changed since that time is the monetisation, these walled platforms have had to instigate revenue share with large creators. But still, the wish for a simpler more open web is in the background. There is evidence of a swing back that way (the fediverse, blue sky?), I just hope &amp;quot;big business&amp;quot; doesn&amp;#x27;t destroy it (the rumour of Facebook embracing the fediverse...).&lt;p&gt;RSS isn&amp;#x27;t dead, it&amp;#x27;s the backbone of podcasts, but it&amp;#x27;s such a shame our Twitter feed, our Facebook, or even our Twitch isn&amp;#x27;t available as RSS.&lt;p&gt;Back in &amp;#x27;06, my &amp;quot;mashup&amp;quot; was a social feed aggregator, it gave you a single &amp;quot;homepage&amp;quot; with all your activity from Myspace, Facebook, Reddit, Digg, Flickr, and many other sites. A lot of that was built on RSS, and you could add any RSS fead to your page. Sadly it went nowhere, but I learnt a lot...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ittner</author><text>&amp;gt; rss-bridge: Can generate feeds for a ton of different sites. I use it for Twitch feeds.&lt;p&gt;A bit of a shameless self-promotion plug: rss-bridge is great but I wanted to do the same from a command line program sending the output to stdout and without running a dedicated local web server, so I wrote newslinkrss ( &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;ittner&amp;#x2F;newslinkrss&amp;#x2F;&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;ittner&amp;#x2F;newslinkrss&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; )&lt;p&gt;It allowed me to replace a bunch of dedicated scripts at the cost of some complex command lines. It works pretty well for people who prefer desktop news readers to web-based ones.&lt;p&gt;Feedback is welcome.</text></comment>
<story><title>RSS Autodiscovery (2006)</title><url>https://www.rssboard.org/rss-autodiscovery</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ozarker</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been discovering different tools to make the content I consume available via RSS. Some of those tools:&lt;p&gt;nitter: Alternative Twitter frontend that provides RSS feeds&lt;p&gt;teddit: Alternative Reddit frontend that provides RSS feeds (Reddit itself still has RSS feeds, we&amp;#x27;ll see how that plays out though)&lt;p&gt;rss-bridge: Can generate feeds for a ton of different sites. I use it for Twitch feeds.&lt;p&gt;invidious: Alternative YouTube frontend that provides RSS feeds&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s been refreshing to subscribe to the feeds I want to see and not have &amp;quot;recommended&amp;quot; content stepping all over what I want to see. Recent trends make me worried some of these services are going to go away in the near future though.</text></item><item><author>samwillis</author><text>The &amp;#x27;00s were such a wonderful time, the explosion in open access information, mashups (how I miss mashups!), easy publishing and the reach you could get from your sofa. RSS is the epitome of that, it&amp;#x27;s such a shame we have ended up with these walled garden social publishing platforms that lock &lt;i&gt;our&lt;/i&gt; content down.&lt;p&gt;This, adding the RSS icon to the address bar, was an inspired move to surface discoverability. Compare that with the fight to get Apple to surface the availability of PWAs!&lt;p&gt;The big thing that has changed since that time is the monetisation, these walled platforms have had to instigate revenue share with large creators. But still, the wish for a simpler more open web is in the background. There is evidence of a swing back that way (the fediverse, blue sky?), I just hope &amp;quot;big business&amp;quot; doesn&amp;#x27;t destroy it (the rumour of Facebook embracing the fediverse...).&lt;p&gt;RSS isn&amp;#x27;t dead, it&amp;#x27;s the backbone of podcasts, but it&amp;#x27;s such a shame our Twitter feed, our Facebook, or even our Twitch isn&amp;#x27;t available as RSS.&lt;p&gt;Back in &amp;#x27;06, my &amp;quot;mashup&amp;quot; was a social feed aggregator, it gave you a single &amp;quot;homepage&amp;quot; with all your activity from Myspace, Facebook, Reddit, Digg, Flickr, and many other sites. A lot of that was built on RSS, and you could add any RSS fead to your page. Sadly it went nowhere, but I learnt a lot...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nordsieck</author><text>&amp;gt; invidious: Alternative YouTube frontend that provides RSS feeds&lt;p&gt;Youtube natively offers per-channel rss feeds.</text></comment>