Just wondering: If people now start promoting #rss again, why would again I want to use a service like Feedly or Inoreader to keep track of my subscriptions?
@outlaw @angristan Yes, of course. But didn't we want to back off from central services a bit? From that point of view, using a central service to manage your decentralized news sources seems counterintuitive... ;)
@outlaw @angristan Ok yes, I wholeheartedly agree with that. Always been an admirer of Atom both for syndication and as publishing protocol. Maybe it still would better to have sort of a decentralized or self-hosted aggregator for such feeds... :)
@z428 I’m giving Feedly a shot! Not sure what to think just yet
@alicet Same here. It definitely has a few sweet spots especially in syncing between devices but I wonder where it's better than, say, following news outlets on Twitter...
@z428 good point. I like that I can get my science news in one place. I also like the ux. Still getting used to it, but it seems like the most efficient way to keep up to date with current publications.
@alicet Of course. The only thing I dislike a bit here is that it is read-only. That's where I'd love to see, say, atompub and a standardized way to also comment and discuss posts published via RSS.
@z428 Use an interchange format like OPML. Make sure that export is available before you import your subscriptions.
@astro Yep, trying to figure out a good workflow for that right now, for syncing Feeder on Android with possibly Liferea on Linux. Want to see whether it works and whether it can be conveniently handled...
@z428 I like #rss not for news so much (I'm happy with the #wtfjusthappenedtoday roundup) but because it's a nice way to get updates about actual blogs I like.
@eleanor Yeah same here, I still do follow some blogs - and most of these also send their updates to Twitter. So it's about evaluating three options: (a) Use Twitter for that. (b) Use RSS with some server sided aggregator like Feedly. (c) Use RSS readers and somehow sync OPML files around. I use both desktop and mobile, no "leading" system here. Always kind of have been using RSS since early 2000s but a bit less intense recently due to social media...
@z428 So far I like Inoreader a lot more than feedly, but my phone is busted so I haven't had a chance to try their android app.
@eleanor I see. I have been using Feedly for a while earlier but mostly because back then it worked with greader on Android which doesn't seem to be maintained anymore...
@herrgnatz Yes but I didn't like the app very much, at least compared to Feeder. Current workflow draft is to use an OPML file on a Nextcloud and share it around using WebDAV. About to see how this works. ;)
@dlq I'm currently playing with feeder (also from fdroid) which is generally nice but I still gotta figure out how much effort is needed to keep subscriptions synced between various devices (phone, tablet, laptop).
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