It's Time For an RSS Revival https://www.wired.com/story/rss-readers-feedly-inoreader-old-reader/?mbid=social_twitter_onsiteshare via @wired
@blakehaswell @melissamcewen which operating system wou you like your rss reader to run in? Do you want cloud sync so you can read with your phone?
@ratamacue Phone synch is a rare use-case, but I do need it occasionally. I wonder if self-hosted on the web is the right option here. 🤔
@blakehaswell @melissamcewen Liferea for a desktop app, TinyTinyRSS for a webapp that can sync with your phone/etc
@melissamcewen @wired I'd like to add Newsblur to that list...
@melissamcewen The publishing incentives have to change before adoption becomes widespread again
I'm not sure it was the "platformization of the web" that helped killed RSS or even the lack of a good reader (I've been using Thunderbird for years)
I'm more than happy to publish a feed, but someone writing for a living may have their site ad-supported so of course they would want people to read content on the site itself so people can view and click on ads
I think the commercial web killed RSS
@cypnk I make an OK ish amount of money from Amazon Affiliate links which work in RSS but I agree we need some kind of sustainable model- some feeds do just have a preview and you visit the actual site to read more
@melissamcewen @wired i pretty much live on RSS
@melissamcewen @wired After Google reader was closed down I moved to Newsblur, still happy with it.
@melissamcewen I am faving this in order to add it to a Mastodon-to-RSS feed, which my self-hosted instance of TTRSS will pick up. #RSSisnotdead
@melissamcewen Any recommendations for a FOSS reader? Preferably something I can run locally.