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by h4kunamata 9 days ago
>RSS was declared dead in 2013

Where? Not within the homelab space.
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8organicbits 9 days ago
They probably meant it hyperbolically, but RSS was on a downward slope during that period. The recent uptick is fascinating.

https://trends.google.com/explore?q=%2Fm%2F0n5tx&date=all&ge...

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h4kunamata 9 days ago
>The recent uptick is fascinating

With US techs harvesting people's data, subscription mess, cars that are no longer cars but computers on wheel, and now AI, even folks with bare minimal knowledge are self hosting things.

All you need is a second hand dirty cheap Dell SFF computer from eBay, install Proxmox on it and even if it comes with only 8GB, you can still spin up a few Proxmox LXC containers (small like Docker but far better).

People are going back to buying physical media, old model of things, wired headphones is all time high.

MP3 players are all time high, no phone, no subscription, just music.

90s, early 2000s is so back and is a good thing, people themselves are putting a hard break on technology.

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PunchyHamster 9 days ago
No, 2013 was demise of Google Reader, which was at the time very good and very accessible so it was how a lot of people used RSS
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h4kunamata 9 days ago
I must add that I self-host FreshRSS to fetch news and GitHub repos updates so I can update my stuff, everything in-house, controlled by me.

RSS makes life so much easier, some only provide the bare minimal while others, provide the whole post so I can read everything right there without opening a website.

Also, some podcast support it so I have a list of podcast that I list and can go back without having to go from website to website.

One place to govern them all, RSS still king.

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