Ask HN: Who wants to help promote RSS?

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Fraidycat

#RSS Reader #RSS Client #Social Networks 26 social mentions

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Mute Filters by Feedly

There are services that can do that. https://www.pipes.digital/ is mine and filtering feeds is probably its main use case. There is also https://siftrss.com/ and I know that some RSS reader have similar functionality, like https://blog.feedly.com/leo-and-mute-filters/.

#Productivity #Social Media Tools #Wellness 2 social mentions

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sumi.news

As someone who runs an RSS feed reader (https://sumi.news), RSS is a terrible protocol for notifying users of updates. I think email is superior in every way. 1. Email is more efficient. Email doesn’t require constant polling. 2. Email client support is superior. Everyone has an email service and can sync across devices. 3. Email is social, it allows subscribers to reply to the author. 4. Email is more reliable. Authors have a copy of all their subscribers, they aren’t tied to a URL. Subscribers can easily update their subscription if they want to change emails. #4 is a huge problem I see running an RSS client. Many authors change their feed URL unintentionally, and break everyone’s subscription.

#Productivity #News #Email Newsletters 46 social mentions