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Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking?

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361 points gloxkiqcza | 1 comments | 24 Aug 25 16:30 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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everdrive ◴[24 Aug 25 18:44 UTC] No.45006602[source]▶
The free internet might be gone in the next decade. Probably time to buy a few hard drives and do some archiving. I don't just mean piracy. Articles, blogs, anything you find precious.
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themafia ◴[24 Aug 25 20:05 UTC] No.45007296[source]▶
It's a good time to get an RSS reader and build some direct connections to your sources. They're coming for the "aggregators" next.
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1oooqooq ◴[24 Aug 25 20:55 UTC] No.45007685[source]▶
rss is dead. and aggregating won't be your main issue anyway.
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themafia ◴[24 Aug 25 20:59 UTC] No.45007721[source]▶
RSS is alive and well. I use it daily with dozens of sites and authors. It's incredibly useful, widely used, and well supported.

Finding content is the issue. Unless I go directly to each site every day and scan for new articles I'm likely to miss them. If not for aggregators and RSS how else would this be accomplished?

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dbg31415 ◴[24 Aug 25 22:16 UTC] No.45008293[source]▶
> RSS is alive and well

That's a stretch.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-rise-and-demise-of-rss/

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=r...

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1. colinsane ◴[24 Aug 25 23:42 UTC] No.45008824{3}[source]▶
> [RSS] is a standard that websites and podcasts can use to offer a feed of content to their users, one easily understood by lots of different computer programs. Today, though RSS continues to power many applications on the web, it has become, for most people, an obscure technology.

arguing that RSS is dead because the average person doesn't understand it is like saying HTTP's dead for the same reason. neither are dead: we've just abstracted them to the point that they're no longer the front-facing part of any interaction.