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re: RSS
April 29th, 2021
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sloum just wrote about RSS [0] wondering what happend to it and
why nobody links to their feeds anymore. It's a good question.
I have an RSS feed on my blog and my labs blog, but I don't have
a link in the webpage to them. The <link rel='alternate' is in
there.
[0] sloum - RSS
I do publish the feed links on cosmic, but that's sort of
a byproduct of doing it on gopher where there's no link element to
do it behind the scenes. So why don't I link to them on more
sites? I think it's partially habit. Browsers just used to expose
RSS feeds and subscription buttons so naturally in the browser
interface I got used to it. When they stopped that I didn't
retroactively promote it on my pages.
Now that I'm thinking about it actively, that's pretty stupid. I'm
going to spend some time to add feed links back onto my pages
soon. The attack on RSS/Atom has been ongoing and should be fought
on all levels including individual action. Google Reader shutting
down and the major browsers removing feed reading were arguably
the biggest blows to the standard, but the efforts haven't won out
yet. Podcasts have a stronghold still and there are still plenty
of readers out there. I'll do my part.
If you want my blog & labs feed, here they are to copy/paste:
https://blog.tomasino.org/index.xml
https://labs.tomasino.org/index.xml
Oh, and this gopher phlog has a feed at:
gopher://gopher.black/0/rss.xml
which you can reach via proxy or by piping it through curl if your
rss reader can't do gopher.
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