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by keithb-
1947 days ago
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I'm old and changes in technology have baffled me for years. So here's a hypothetical: if RSS was still popular, would we be having this conversation? I assume that the next phase in this saga will be a plethora of products suddenly pop into the app store that have some childish implementation of a recommendation algorithm built into what is effectively an RSS reader: add news sites, "like" a link once in a while, and Boom! the recommendation algorithm will filter your subscriptions for "related" articles. Every few months or so, you'll have to dump the algorithm data and "reset" because the implementation is too clunky and ends up building odd combinations. "Why am I seeing only links about Arianna Grande now? Why am I not seeing 'new artist' articles?" And then people will start to bitch about XML and then the whole system will halt and catch fire (again). |
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Seriously though RSS has never died and tonnes of us still use it despite the efforts of close-walled companies like Facebook and Twitter disabling it on their services. It is the only way I like to consume my news, particularly tech news, as there are just too many sources to do it any other way.
There are some services/clients that try to do what you describe and filter your feeds to emphasise keywords, authors etc.. that you are interested in. They are generally pretty immature though and I would welcome some better systems for this, as long as it is transparent what they are including and excluding.