[raman162]

I'm a big fan of RSS but RSS limits you to what you already have subscribed to. I think mining user data has become the unfortunate norm but there trying to provide more relevant content here so that's understandable.

I'm curious to see how well this type of recommendation works in comparison to community based sites like hacker news and reddit.

[rambambram]

> but RSS limits you to what you already have subscribed to

Not if every website with a feed also shares their subscribed feeds. Like with an OPML file, which was already used as a feedlist exchange format.

I aim to create this with my Really Social Sites software. And I'm always curious to scroll through someone else's meaningful lists of shared links.

So if anyone cares to share their OPML file or list of interesting bookmarks, please reply.

[Y_Y]

I'd be interested to see what you already have. If you really want a pile of interesting bookmarks I bet a lot of people here (including me) could give you some and it might be worth making a whole new discussion (vía e.g. Show HN) for it.

[rambambram]

Not that much right now, but you can see a small list at the bottom of my company's website (see profile). Look for the text "You might also like ...". It's mostly sites/feeds that were already featured on HN somewhere in the last year.

I was thinking of asking HN for lists of interesting bookmarks (or even OPML files) to share. I guess a lot of people here have interesting hobbies other than tech!

[pavo-etc]

I wish the RSS had a way of embedding a list of other RSS feeds. Then if you wanted to you could use this to form a network.

[rambambram]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the spec already allows for this.

[nishs]

Providing and consuming relevant content shouldn't be a holy grail, or at least should be given less importance.

[adql]

Yet way to find what you like is nice. Youtube for all its mess did let me discover a bunch of channels I now watch often, even tho most of my browsing comes from me subscribing to YT channel's RSS feed

[johnsillings]

Less importance than what?

[nishs]

If an organization making a product has to choose between

(A) mining user data; hyper-optimizing their algorithms for relevance and user engagement; and maximizing revenue

(B) not mining user data; having not-as-engaged users; and having lower revenue

I think the organization should choose option B. If there isn't sufficient incentive generally for organizations to choose option B over A, then the larger question is how can we structure our world to incentivize that? That is what I was driving towards with my earlier comment.

On the consuming side, it might actually be a good thing to sometimes stay bored, to not have relevant content lighting up your face all the time. But that depends on the person's preferences and needs though. Here too, how can we structure the world so that people don't think it crucial to be able to find engaging content when they open an app.