# I am the Watcher. I am your guide through this vast new twtiverse.
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# Usage:
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/users View list of users and latest twt date.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/twt View all twts.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/mentions?uri=:uri View all mentions for uri.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/conv/:hash View all twts for a conversation subject.
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# Options:
# uri Filter to show a specific users twts.
# offset Start index for quey.
# limit Count of items to return (going back in time).
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# twt range = 1 25
# self = https://watcher.sour.is/conv/2hlggeq
@movq RSS is not really dead. All Podcasts are actually using it. Or an ATOM Feed. But that's still RSS under the hood, isn't it? I do have an RSS feed. But I don't know if someone reads my blog as I do not keep stats. I do have a lot of people trying to login in though.
@movq @carsten
i don't think rss has gone anywhere. it's likely obfuscated by all of these apps and services that aggregate for you. my reader is full of blogs and videos. also @mckinley work on watching videos from the terminal and aggregating via rss. it's a great workflow
@movq I still use Atom and RSS feeds. But I also don't understand that browsers now need extensions to do something useful with these feeds. The mind just boggles.
@carsten @retrocrash I think you’re missing the point that the blog post was trying to make: *Newcomers* will have a hard(er) time understanding what RSS/Atom is and that it even exists, because all RSS functionality has been removed from mainstream browsers. When you click on a feed icon, it’ll just give you the XML. So, unless you already know that this is a feed and that you can put it in your *feed reader* (an external program, no longer integrated into the browser), will you understand how this system works?
Yes, us old nerds, we’re still using RSS/Atom – a lot. But what do the 20 year olds do (or teenagers), especially non-nerd people? Do they know of the existence of RSS? If not, how do they follow blogs? (Do they do that in the first place or do they just consume what someone else posted on Twitter?)
@carsten @retrocrash I think you’re missing the point that the blog post was trying to make: *Newcomers* will have a hard(er) time understanding what RSS/Atom is and that it even exists, because all RSS functionality has been removed from mainstream browsers. When you click on a feed icon, it’ll just give you the XML. So, unless you already know that this is a feed and that you can put it in your *feed reader* (an external program, no longer integrated into the browser), will you understand how this system works?
Yes, us old nerds, we’re still using RSS/Atom – a lot. But what do the 20 year olds do (or teenagers), especially non-nerd people? Do they know of the existence of RSS? If not, how do they follow blogs? (Do they do that in the first place or do they just consume what someone else posted on Twitter?)
@carsten @retrocrash I think you’re missing the point that the blog post was trying to make: *Newcomers* will have a hard(er) time understanding what RSS/Atom is and that it even exists, because all RSS functionality has been removed from mainstream browsers. When you click on a feed icon, it’ll just give you the XML. So, unless you already know that this is a feed and that you can put it in your *feed reader* (an external program, no longer integrated into the browser), will you understand how this system works?
Yes, us old nerds, we’re still using RSS/Atom – a lot. But what do the 20 year olds do (or teenagers), especially non-nerd people? Do they know of the existence of RSS? If not, how do they follow blogs? (Do they do that in the first place or do they just consume what someone else posted on Twitter?)
Haha, this is gold! I love the sarcastic tone.
I think RSS switched to Social Media, then to email newsletters, but I agree with @movq on being mainly for the lack of discoverability in browsers.
On Gemini I use Antenna, or even Telegram channels to push the content to me. I don't know, I'm not an avid consumer of blogs, and that's perhaps the reason I don't like to receive content in aggregators. IDK.
Another point is that with RSS you don't control what you receive. I was getting hundreds of new entries, generating a sense of _this is too much_. When I visit a site like Hacker News, I look over the last day, and it's OK if I miss content from weeks ago.
Being a fan of Inbox Zero, I like to unsubscribe from content not attractive to me or only receive a weekly summary (like that from IndieHackers.com). With RSS I feel I receive a push of everything the blog has created.
But again, I haven't used it in years.
@eaplmx there are stateless rss-readers, that only shows you a list of feeds, and no indication about if it have been "read" or not. I'm using moonmoon at the moment, but I hope that yarn.social some day will be my stateless reader for everything
next level would be to only ofter your content via RSS: https://shinobi.website/index.txt
> A shinobi website is a text-based, RSS focused blogging "system". I put the word system in quotes since it's really just a simple bash script that converts plain text files into an RSS feed. So, it isn't an actual blogging platform or website in the traditional sense.
@darch Interesting, it reminds me a bit of twtxt, where the content and the notifications are in a single file
@movq i received the point of the article loud and clear. there's plenty of young people who have become frustrated and sought out ways to aggregate. of course mass re-adoption is futile, but putting the information out there in a way that makes things simple for others is likely a good plan. meanwhile i'll go back to baking a docker container that can aggregate nearly anything you throw at it
@darch i had no idea this was a thing, thank you!
@movq The problem might also be, that the teenager do not use websites that much as we do. Most of them (rough guess 90% ???) use Apps. Facebook, TikTok, Messenger, WhatsApp, Apps from Newssites etc. They don't use the web as we use it. They are imprisoned inside their smartphones.
I agree with you, my friends. A lot of teenagers these days only have a smartphone but not a real computer. If something doesn't exist in their social media bubble, it's not real. Even e-mail seems to slowly die off in that generation. At least that's what I see in my circle of acquaintences.
@carsten @lyse Right, that weird “app” culture. 🤔 And “mobile”. It’s a completely different world, pretty much 100% disconnected from what I experience. 🤔
(I don’t boycot smartphones per se, btw, but the ones that are currently available don’t fit my needs. I wrote about that a while ago on Gopher.)
@carsten @lyse Right, that weird “app” culture. 🤔 And “mobile”. It’s a completely different world, pretty much 100% disconnected from what I experience. 🤔
(I don’t boycot smartphones per se, btw, but the ones that are currently available don’t fit my needs. I wrote about that a while ago on Gopher.)
@carsten @lyse Right, that weird “app” culture. 🤔 And “mobile”. It’s a completely different world, pretty much 100% disconnected from what I experience. 🤔
(I don’t boycot smartphones per se, btw, but the ones that are currently available don’t fit my needs. I wrote about that a while ago on Gopher.)
@movq Haha, yes, mostly disjoint from my universe, too. ;-)
@movq Curious what your needs are? (Can't connect to your Gopherhole atm)
@movq Curious what your needs are? (Can't connect to your Gopherhole atm)