Re:Maybe Bluesky Has "Won"
by anonyfox on Friday November 15, 2024 @03:53PM
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Not to disagree with your post, but I'd *love* to support a renaissance of RSS. It was/is essentially peak distribution of content in a proper decentralized manner, putting users first and letting providers use whatever they want freely to generate it. No walled gardens. No restrictions.
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And no good tools. RSS readers in 2024 still keep failing with the same failing interfaces that failed in 1999.
No, I don't want a portal with a little box for every feed I follow.
No, I don't want a listing like an email client.
No, I never want it to show me a piece of content twice unless I ask for it. (e.g. as David Byrne says: "say something once, why say it again?")
Yes, I expect to subscribe to more RSS feeds than I can read entirely so I expect it to learn my preferences like my YOShInOn agent does. In a cycle of a few days, YOShInOn might find 3000 or so articles in RSS feeds and it chooses 300 to show me which I thumbs up or thumbs down. I knew such a thing was possible when I wrote this paper
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC387301/
but now it is not only possible but easy.