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Andreas Rohlfs Feb 14

People:

2014: OMG RSS is still around!
2015: OMG RSS is still around!
2016: OMG RSS is still around!
2017: OMG RSS is still around!
2018: OMG RSS is still around!
2019: OMG RSS is still around!
2020: OMG RSS is still around!
2021: OMG RSS is still around!
2022: OMG RSS is still around!
2023: OMG RSS is still around!
2024: OMG RSS is still around!
2025: OMG RSS is still around!
2026: OMG RSS is still around!

Maybe in 2027 we’ll stop being surprised!

Incident Creator ❎Feb 13

@brentsimmons Ohyeah, and Feedbro plugin on Firefox works very nicely for tracking feeds.

Eric A. Meyer Feb 13

@brentsimmons *(narrator)* They did not, in fact, stop being surprised in 2027.

Pink! Polonium!Feb 13

@brentsimmons In retrospect, I wonder if all the chatter way back when about the death of Google Reader served to convince people that RSS was dead (and therefore everybody should sign up for Facebook).

Brent Simmons Feb 13

@pinkpolonium It seemed true then and still seems true.

@brentsimmons @Cheatha Kids! netnewswire is the best thing I started to use last year :)

@brentsimmons RSS is great. The internet coming to me rather than the opposite.

Steve Barnes Feb 13

@brentsimmons –

(The criterion for "people" is that any two or more people during a given year say something like this at least once, or…?)

Brent Simmons Feb 13

@Starfia It’s a thing I happen to notice all the time. (If anyone would notice, it would be people who write RSS readers.)

Steve Barnes Feb 18

@brentsimmons –

I can certainly understand some mild confirmation bias. ^ ^

I don't get the impression we're on the cusp of "not being surprised," but I'd also keep my ears open for any rise in "what's RSS?" and consider it promising.

Tim Stringer Feb 14

@brentsimmons Maybe it's time to rename it to "Really Sustainable Syndication" 🤔

Irene (she/they, Sir/Mr.)Feb 14

@brentsimmons as a fully grown adult who still actively struggles with object permanence, i fear that "number of solar orbits" is not the limiting factor 😭

Maho 🦝🍻Feb 14

@brentsimmons PHP vibes

Greg Reinacker Feb 14

@brentsimmons wait ’til they hear about SMTP!

Carlos Solís Feb 14

As a #Friendica user (one of the few services that supports RSS feeds and AP in the same app), I'm sure glad that RSS is still around! Except for all the services that are in the Extinguish phase of the Extend-Embrace-Extinguish strategy, like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Reddit - all of them conveniently dropped support for RSS around the time they shut down most external APIs, and now the only way to retrieve data from them is using scrapers like fetchrss.com/

RSS Generator - FetchRSS

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jan Malin Feb 14

@brentsimmons You have maintained NetNewsWire for an extended time. Otherwise I would not found it last year! RSS readers keep RSS fun.

MegatronicThronBanks Feb 14

@brentsimmons ATOMMMMMMMMM

Jonathan Clede Feb 14

@brentsimmons Didn't Google shut down RSS in 2013?

Paul_IPv6 Feb 14

2025: OMG RSS is still around!
2026: RSS is still around. Thank heavens!

Lesley Lai Feb 14

@brentsimmons It's surprising how many people are using RSS. I something bumps into people in real life who use it.

I feel that people say "RSS is dead" because RSS users don't talk back (unlike, say, on social media) and it's hard to know they exist, but there is a reason it's still widely supported across so many blogs and sites.

william.maggos Feb 14

ActivityPub is next gen RSS, adding boosts and replies. I don't want to subscribe to a million feeds or podcasts, but I would like to follow a lot of people and see what articles, videos and podcast episodes are most popular with them.

banshee7076 Feb 14

2014: This will be the year of Linux.
2015: This will be the year of Linux.
2016: This will be the year of Linux.
2017: This will be the year of Linux.
2018: This will be the year of Linux.
2019: This will be the year of Linux.
2020: This will be the year of Linux.
2021: This will be the year of Linux.
2022: This will be the year of Linux.
2023: This will be the year of Linux.
2024: This will be the year of Linux.
2025: This will be the year of Linux.
2026: This will definitely be the year of Linux 😀

John Macintosh Feb 14

@brentsimmons If that happens, I will cancel my Internet access.

@brentsimmons
RSS − like punk − never dies

Berdan Sarıgöl 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️Feb 14

@brentsimmons god I hope not. An RSS Reader is literally how I manage all of the text-based social media websites right now and it works far better than their respective apps

@brentsimmons A content of a webapp does not depens on appearance and operation. Web MVC works fine. Content syndication too.

@brentsimmons @timo I am about to Write my own little rss aggregator / reader because none that i know has the features i like to have 🤷‍♂️

RSS is such a great thing!

Florian Ziegler Feb 14

@nSonic @brentsimmons @timo I can recommend @FeedCity!

@florianziegler @brentsimmons @timo @FeedCity None can display rss feed of forums in a good way, like grouping by title. In a forum you might get updates in only 5 threads but the rss feed is flooded with 50 items because about 10 new posts in each thread. Showing each thread only once with a shaded color to indicate it’s a group and a badge with the item count in each group. Tapping a group to expand/collapse or navigate to a list of items in that group.
I might write it myself 🤷‍♂️

anparker Feb 14

@brentsimmons I heard the same thing about e-mail.

Benjamin Kwiecień 🇵🇸Feb 14

@brentsimmons what about ROUS's

@brentsimmons @timo live it und used it ever since

Wenzel Massag Feb 14

@brentsimmons @nicksherman

2014: OMG you still use email?!
2015: OMG you still use email?!
2016: OMG you still use email?!
2017: OMG you still use email?!
2018: OMG you still use email?!
2019: OMG you still use email?!
2020: OMG you still use email?!
2021: OMG you still use email?!
2021: OMG you still use email?!
2022: OMG you still use email?!
2023: OMG you still use email?!
2024: OMG you still use email?!
2025: OMG you still use email?!
2026: Newsletters move to blogs with RSS feeds.

poetaster Feb 14

@brentsimmons it's like MIDI's little cousin.

Des Paroz Feb 14

@brentsimmons @rscottjones I just wish websites claiming to be blogs didn’t switch RSS off

@brentsimmons
Linux = NewsBoat,
iOS = Netnewswire,
Android = Capy Reader

Also, Pale Moon and Basilisk web browsers support it ootb, if you want a browser app for rss separate from your daily driver