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Re:Mozilla Presses Pause on Facebook Advertising by jakecopp on Thursday March 22, 2018 @02:30AM (#16646262)
Are there online RSS feed writers that nontechnical people could use? Reading a pure collection of my friend's RSS feeds would be wonderful.

Though to the best of my understanding there is no way of commenting on RSS posts unless you host a site.

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Re:Mozilla Presses Pause on Facebook Advertising by zdkl on Thursday March 22, 2018 @03:06AM (#16646417)
Have you checked out the ActivityPub spec? https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/#Overview
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Re:Mozilla Presses Pause on Facebook Advertising by brylie on Thursday March 22, 2018 @03:12AM (#16646455)
FWIW, Mastadon supports ActivityPub:

https://hackernoon.com/mastodon-and-the-w3c-f75f376f422

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Re:Mozilla Presses Pause on Facebook Advertising by fitzroy on Thursday March 22, 2018 @02:41AM (#16646311)
FriendFeed was great for this (until it was acquired and eventually shut down by Facebook).

Seems like a good time to resurrect that idea.

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Re:Mozilla Presses Pause on Facebook Advertising by brylie on Thursday March 22, 2018 @03:11AM (#16646448)
For non-technical people, it might be good to help them get set up on Mastadon network:

https://joinmastodon.org/

https://instances.social/

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Re:Mozilla Presses Pause on Facebook Advertising by aaron-lebo on Thursday March 22, 2018 @03:21AM (#16646493)
That's not a good choice for non technical people.

I respect what they are doing, but the community is still nerdy and really small. It will feel good from a techie perspective, but it's not something that many users are going to get much value out of, you are kind of wasting their time.

Not sure, but pretty sure Mastodon is going to end up being as popular as Diaspora RStatus or app.net. It's not a mainstream solution. Federation for most people is a useful feature on top of an active popular social network, not the other way around.

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Re:Mozilla Presses Pause on Facebook Advertising by daveFNbuck on Thursday March 22, 2018 @02:37AM (#16646289)
Yes, I find Feedly to be quite usable. It also has some social features but I have no idea how those work.
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Re:Mozilla Presses Pause on Facebook Advertising by dawnerd on Thursday March 22, 2018 @02:44AM (#16646336)
Newsblur? Theres commenting and it's pretty easy to use.
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Re:Mozilla Presses Pause on Facebook Advertising by smsm42 on Thursday March 22, 2018 @03:08PM (#16651669)
If you want to read RSS, use feedly. I've moved to it when Google killed Reader, and haven't regretted it since.
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