your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦Oct 5, 2023

i do not understand why a news site would not have an #RSS feed of their latest headlines.

you don't have to give your content away if you don't want to. but you cannot bitch & moan about #facebook or #twitter cannibalizing your readership in their fascist gated communities when you've turned your back on web standards and the open web.

Show threadJL Johnson Oct 6, 2023
@blogdiva @lisamelton Hello. I never really got into RSS but love the open standard idea. I wonder if it’s possible to publish the “before read more” section of a post to RSS with a link to the full post? I think a lot of folks don’t want to lose that ad revenue for native visits.
Show threadyour auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦Oct 6, 2023
@User47 @lisamelton yes. you can do whatever TF you want with feeds, which is why they're awesome. your question is great and am now not only adding it to my to-blog list but moving to the front of the pile a tutorial on RSS, syndication and feed readers. thanks!
Show threadJL Johnson 
@blogdiva @lisamelton hot damn. If you let me know when this happens I’ll do my best to get @AirlineReporter setup. We’re doing a sort of post-Covid reboot and trying to meet folks where they are. RSS can be part of that, me thinks
Oct 6, 2023 at 11:57pmWeb
Show threadyour auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦Oct 7, 2023

@User47 @lisamelton @AirlineReporter the reason why RSS sucks is that the majority of MSM embraced Wordpress instead of Drupal because it was "too hard". but that was BS: what they wanted with the new CMS was to kill the writers & editors unions; so they went with what they thought would make them laugh all the way to the bank with skeleton staffs.

and here we are.

Drupal's "building block forms" makes it so you can also build RSS however you want, ie: you can have free RSS and paid RSS

Show threadJL Johnson Oct 7, 2023
@blogdiva ah ha. We’re Wordpress. There’s no way I could talk them into a full migration
Show threadyour auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦Oct 7, 2023

@User47 i don't use WP anymore, so i wouldn't even know if there's some rogue dev who figured it out for them, LOL.

the "fork" between most CMSs and Drupal is that Drupal is probably the only one that allows you to atomize content. it has default "page" and "article" forms but those are so 2005.

you can create any content-entry forms you want, then pull, render & format that data however you want and then thru APIs, deliver it a myriad ways: html, xhtml, xml, json, yml, cvs, pdf, epub, etc.