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RSS is awesome

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314 points edverma2 | 1 comments | 28 Aug 25 23:04 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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ropable ◴[29 Aug 25 01:37 UTC] No.45059049[source]▶
I'm sad that a basic description of what RSS consists of makes it onto HN. I still upvoted to help educate the kids :/

FYI FreshRSS is fairly trivial to self-host, and is a really nice option for an RSS reader app.

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DonHopkins ◴[29 Aug 25 11:32 UTC] No.45062706[source]▶
Who old enough to remember when everybody was syndicating all their favorite RSS feeds on their own blogs, and then some joker posted a blog entry to his own RSS feed with a title like "What happens when you put an unbalanced <BLINK> tag into the title?", and the ENTIRE BLOGOSPHERE started blinking?
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1. danillonunes ◴[29 Aug 25 15:42 UTC] No.45065550[source]▶
People were literally XSSing themselves and the worst someone did was a funny prank. Those were simpler times.