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   Lisa Kalayji (lisakalayji@infosec.exchange)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 13:53:02 JST Lisa Kalayji

   Got a friend who usually gets most of his news from his Insta feed to switch to an RSS reader (he'd never heard of them and was ✨dazzled✨ by it). He's still on Insta foe the time being, but I'm counting it as a small win.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 13:53:01 JST Rich Felker

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     @LisaKalayji I've never been into RSS because I want curation (trusted ppl with shared values and no commercial incentives to push garbage choosing what to share), not sewerhose from media institutions.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 14:50:18 JST Rich Felker

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     • Steven Roose

     @stevenroose @LisaKalayji But that's just like worse fediverse with no interaction, only one way consume.

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     Steven Roose (stevenroose@x0f.org)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 14:50:19 JST Steven Roose

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     • Rich Felker

     @dalias @LisaKalayji NewsBlur allows you to filter/select posts to publish on your personal feed and then you can follow each other's feeds.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 08-Feb-2025 21:42:34 JST Rich Felker

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     • Steven Roose

     @stevenroose @LisaKalayji I understand you can pull comments via RSS, but that doesn't give you the means to comment or otherwise interact; you have to do that out-of-band through the 4389850925'th unwanted site-specific account or anonymous comments system (that nobody reasonable would allow anymore). And in practice this means there are never any comments except by dedicated folks with a strong relationship to the site. It's just an utterly backwards way of doing things.

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     Steven Roose (stevenroose@x0f.org)'s status on Saturday, 08-Feb-2025 21:42:35 JST Steven Roose

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     • Steven Roose
     • Rich Felker

     @dalias @stevenroose @LisaKalayji It does comments. But yeah it's true. But that's the point. There's other platforms that could allow you to comment and interact on the content. But the point of rss is just to get content in a very structured way. What you do with the content afterwards is another scope.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Mar-2025 21:38:22 JST Rich Felker

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     • Steven Roose

     @stevenroose @LisaKalayji See the opening post of this thread. It's about curation which inherently (at least in my concept of what that entails) involves seeing trusted sources expressing their views on and in relationship to the articles, not a one-way feed of "content" to "consume". This is why RSS was never appealing to me.

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     Steven Roose (stevenroose@x0f.org)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Mar-2025 21:38:23 JST Steven Roose

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     • Rich Felker

     @dalias @LisaKalayji I meant that NewsBlur itself has a built-in comment system, with other people on your newsblur instance (I think).

     But my main point being that RSS is not meant for *talking about content*, but for *consuming content*. It's impossible to get information from Mastodon the same way RSS can do.