markjgsmith

2023/09/06 #

• Chris Coyier [~31:57] on the present state of syndication: "We are in a rough spot".

  That pretty much sums it up. We've spent the last 10 years happily enjoying the convenience of Twitter, and we've left many of the open alternatives wither by the wayside. Many of us are realising now that it's actually harder to syndicate content into several networks than it used to be back in the era of ubiquitous APIs.

  I have things I post flowing in some way through Twitter, Mastodon and LinkedIn, but it's not ideal because I don't currently have a way to have full posts in my RSS feeds. I can't figure out how to add code syntax highlighting into the feeds, so at the minute I only include the description and a link to avoid a broken reading experience.

  I like the new fancy federated protocols but I'd feel better if I had a robust setup for RSS reading, newsgroups/IRC and forums. #

• My RSS reading experience is quite bad at the minute. Organising all my feeds feels like a gargantuan task. With 15 or so years of feeds that have accumulated, many of which are defunct, there is just so much to wade through. There is also no clear way to categorize any of them in a useful way.

  I wish there was more automation. For instance for any site that I link to on the linkblog, I'd like to automatically subscribe to their RSS feed if one exists. Then after a week or so let me review the ones I want to keep subscribed to. I also want more feed readers to support OPML reading lists, so it's easy to move between readers, and I can manage my subscriptions in a similar way that I manage blog and linkblog posts.

  Also I'm wondering when AI powered tools will make their way into our feed readers. #