Because the decline of RSS stops people using RSS. I still think RSS is the best way for news and blogs. I don't want go to each website regularly to check for any update.
The decline of RSS has ruined the internet for me. I’m not being hyperbolic either.
RSS effectively died and has been replaced with Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram feeds. Even if RSS still technical exists for some content, it’s not the same.
What was great about RSS is it was pure. If content creators and publishers wanted to put ads in the feed they could and you knew you were directly supporting them. We didn’t have this stupid “likes” garbage that people were competing for.
I find myself just consuming a lot less content on the internet. I’d rather just not participate than have to wade through the bullshit that’s become “social media.”
I am interested in getting these three as rss feeds, not that I use them very much, much getting them into a reader would help others very much.
a quick search shows some things saying public pages can be made RSS, but nothing like a bot that can suck in what your wall or whatever would be and push it into a feed that can be read otherwise.
Here's to hoping the twitter open api thing and the few stories about portable data and standard export for social etc come true.
Or maybe I need to dig deeper, but my gut feeling is/was - finding a way to pull these feeds would lead to the method being killed off by these walled gardens at some point so don't bother. I'd love to be wrong on this.
I use twitrss.me 's Perl code (https://github.com/ciderpunx/twitrssme) to generate custom RSS feeds of twitter users and twitter searches locally which my native feed reader (QuiteRSS) then displays.
