Social media is shit, and will always be shit, because the people who make social platforms are petty authoritarians bent on punishing the world because they didn’t get enough pussy in high school. It is not a substitute for a well-curated collection of RSS feeds.
Unfortunately the display of content in different RSS readers is different.
I understand that RSS is for displaying text and photo information, but the lack of video and audio playback in various app is disappointing.
In addition, it is often necessary to configure the server part to scan commercial sites. This is something that beginners cannot handle.
Unfortunately the display of content in different RSS readers is different.
Why is this a problem? I consider this a strength; choose the reader that works best for you.
I understand that RSS is for displaying text and photo information, but the lack of video and audio playback in various app is disappointing.
You know that podcasts are basically RSS feeds with extensions, right?
In addition, it is often necessary to configure the server part to scan commercial sites.
Why is this necessary?
The answer to your question. There are news channels that are only on social networks. Or bloggers who publish insider information about new equipment. As far as I know, you can’t do without scraping on the server if you want to receive news from social networks.
Except for off-the-shelf solutions like Nitter instants.
There are news channels that are only on social networks.
And you’re better off ignoring them. Corporate news channels are nothing but advertising and propaganda.
As far as I know, you can’t do without scraping on the server if you want to receive news from social networks.
Not to be pedantic, but web scraping and port scanning aren’t the same. If you had mentioned scraping before I’d have been content to say that sites that make you scrape instead of providing RSS feeds are run by assholes.
RSS is an aggregation protocol that is
- distributed
- pull-oriented
- self-curated
This is in contrast to reddit, digg, lemmy, or other aggregator services which are
- centralized (even if federated)
- push-oriented
- public input w/ moderator curation
Each of these decisions has tradeoffs.
sometimes the feed aggregator will bypass the paywall for ya 👀
i also like that reading the articles in my feed reader doesn’t give away any tracking information. can get the same info without visiting the source website at all. and when i do open links there’s no source to show where i opened it from.
ultimately it’s so much easier having most news sources in one place instead of subscribing to hella newsletters.
@indigojasper
wholeheartedly agree!
Same reason we did in ancient times, aggregating content
What’s your favourite rss aggravator?
Theoldreader
