Comment by Beijinger
2 days ago
My buddy will soon offer an RSS reader. I will post it here.
Yes, you can create an RSS feed from a Youtube Channel. You can can create an RSS feed from Reddit.
You can't to my best knowledge create an RSS feed anymore from Twitter
Newsletter to RSS: https://kill-the-newsletter.com/
More stuff:
Blogs & RSS https://rssfeedasap.com/ https://code.rosaelefanten.org/rssparser.lisp/dir?ci=tip
This one you have to pay. I am considering it. Some RSS feeds don't work on my TinyTinyRSS. I think cloudflare, like always, is killing it:
https://politepol.com/en/prices
PS: If you have an idea for a RSS reader domain, please suggest.
> Yes, you can create an RSS feed from a Youtube Channel. You can can create an RSS feed from Reddit.
You don't have to create anything. YouTube and Reddit have never stopped publishing RSS feeds. I've personally been using RSS continuously for both sites without any issues for the past 15 years.
Both sites adhere to the standard link tag structure for declaring feed URLs in the headers of applicable pages. You can use a browser extension like 'Get RSS Feed URL' (https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/get-rss-feed-url/kf...) to easily expose the feeds associated with a page you're visiting without having to look for them in the page source.
I personally have all of my feed subscriptions -- blogs, podcasts, aggregators (including HN), YouTube channels, subreddits, etc. -- synchronized via TT-RSS on my VPS. I then use Liferea as my client (https://lzone.de/liferea), pulling from TT-RSS, for a high-quality, no-nonsense reading experience on the desktop.
On the rare occasions I still look at Twitter I use lists instead of follows, and this avoids both the awful algorithmic noise and means I'm not contributing to anyone's bullshit engagement KPIs.
I would still prefer an RSS feed, if there was a logged-out solution.
I was a heavy bloglines user back in the day and loved it. It was like a custom newspaper people printed for me and worked great.
I moved to twitter in 2009 and, for the most part, it was a better RSS experience. The udpates were smaller, more frequent. It was text only and had a size limit which automatically filtered for some level of linguistic ability. I used to only see people who I wanted to. It felt like a cross between IRC (which I used heavily at the time) and RSS and I quite loved it.
Over the years, the experience has degraded. Not just because of "the algorithm" but also because of influencers, social media marketing, spam, etc. But I had the frog in hot water experience and never really felt like moving away. I've blocked it on my work machine and use it only my phone via. the browser and a monochrome screen which makes it less compelling.
I've made a few friends and relationships on the platform and I think it peaked in 2015/2016 or so. Especially when you're in a city that's mostly on it. You run into people who you know "via. twitter". It's been a great ride but I do wish for some of the things of the RSS days.
Does the world need another RSS reader/mousetrap? We already have so many.
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=rss+readers
What is your friend's idea to revolutionize with their new reader?
Someone doesn't really need a reason to build something besides that they want to build it. I built many RSS readers and I was not trying to revolutionise anything, I was just having fun. This mindset of "revolution" and "disruption" will block you from actually just doing the things you want sometimes.
I guess it depends on the goal. If you just want to build things then you don’t need anyone’s permission, but if you want people to use it or to make a living off it, it’s important to know why people would use what you’re building.
> Does the world need another RSS reader/mousetrap? We already have so many.
And we also have near-universal OPML import/export, so the cost of switching is minimised.
> What is your friend's idea to revolutionize with their new reader?
You don't need a revolution to make your app compelling, you just need to improve on status quo. RSS has a lot of shortcomings, most importantly discoverability.
Here's a simple idea: crowdsourced discovery. Users could opt-in to anonymously share their feed list (whole or parts); keyword-based categorisation could group them into topics; etc. The reader could use an algorithm (haha, we're coming full circle) to suggest interesting topics, feeds, posts. Honestly I'd be interested in something like <https://kagi.com/smallweb/>.
Extra kudos if the dataset is released publicly.
Lol the result I got from your search was "rss readers on ebay" ad followed by links all with N top RSS readers for varying N, often 7 or 10.
yes it does. The world is full of 'another's.
Host your own Nitter instance and you'll be able to get RSS feeds
That’s gotten pretty hard to do recently since Musk cracked down on api access
It doesn't use the API
It's not hard, you just need a Twitter account and put in the credentials.
there are some public instances that I use to check a handful of profiles that have yet to migrate elsewhere
Rsshub can give you a RSS feed for Twitter but you have to give it a web session cookie which kinda freaks me out and probably violates the current TOS.
What are they going to do? ban you? if so they're doing you a favor.
I've always described (the old) Twitter as an RSS feed but for people, which I loved. Is there a way to recreate this without all the slop?
Here are the instructions if you want to try RSSHub. You have to self-host it somewhere to really send in the authorization config
https://docs.rsshub.app/routes/social-media#x-twitter
I used RSS bridge but AFAIK is has not been working a long time.
Maybe is does but looks complicated: https://rss-bridge.github.io/rss-bridge/Bridge_Specific/Twit...
https://github.com/dimdenGD/OldTwitter
Works fine. Reverse chronological sorting with just who you follow.
For automated... apart from self host RSS options or nitter instance, neither of which I've tried...
For semi automated I have a manual but not too laborious google sheet:
https://imgur.com/a/S5xTlPp
Uses: https://github.com/dimdenGD/OldTwitter
https://github.com/BlackGlory/copycat
TLDR workflow:
1. open "old" twitter
2. scroll down multiple pages (autopagination supported)
3. search for C2 which contains first 20 characters of last tweet in the sheet
4. copyeverything from that point to first tweet (basically all new tweets since reverse chronological sorted), use copycat to copy the BB code
5. paste BB code in sheet F4 (yellow column), I have a bunch of helper columns in another tab that parses through the code to which sorts into date, url, username, tweet
6. i have another page with list of usernames and next to them labels/tag (emoji)
7. run a script, and it outputs everything into a digest, sorted by label/tag, then user, then tweet from oldest to newest
I spend a few minutes in the morning finding where i left off previous day, copy paste, and run script and it gives me a digest of last 24 hours of tweets.Before this, it was hooked into nitter list RSS which auto refreshed and did it all automatically. Before that there was a nice service called streamspigot or something that did it all with API access. It is unnessicarily annoying / difficult to just get a daily digest of tweets you're interested in.
We have an X (Twitter) option that does not rely on RSS. I think Nitter is dead anyway?
There still exist a couple of nitter instances which provide RSS feeds for X.
I'm building a web app which would extract blogs and their RSS feeds from all HN stories you've commented, upvoted or added to favorites – so that you could easily extract exactly the content you want. I plan on expanding it to handle content you've interacted from other social networks too.