Blueskyfeedbot: Post RSS Feeds to Bluesky via GitHub Actions

My distrust of Google certainly started with the shutdown of Reader. Everything they've done since has made it worse. I was in the position to choose a cloud provider several years ago and would not even consider GCP. I seriously doubt they'll kill GCP, but I see no reason to take a chance on anything Google does outside of search, docs, mail and the core things.

They tried to force the free GSuite editions into paid a year or two ago.

RSS feed is a pull type thing, AT Proto is push if I understand it correctly.

So instead of you polling an RSS feed on Bluesky, they would send you a stream of messages

In my experience, Mastodon clients handle large posts (say 5000 chars instead of 500) very well.

> In a decentralized application, such as Bluesky, as opposed to Mastodon, I can see a future where it would be a replacement for Reddit and HN, without those limits.

Not sure if you're saying that Bluesky is decentralized and Mastodon not, which if anything would be the other way around. The other interpretation is that you can see Bluesky as a replacement for HN/Reddit, but not Mastodon. My take is that both are unfit for that, since they're heavily embracing the micro-blogging format. I'm not sure if there are any ATProto applications like this already, but Lemmy and MBin are both examples of decentralized link aggregators using ActivityPub.

There already is a Reddit-like application that uses ActivityPub. It's called Lemmy (https://join-lemmy.org/).

I can't remember the exact history, but Google's dropping of Reader may have encouraged browser manufacturers to drop their support of RSS.

It's complicated, and I think it's less malicious in a way that "kneecapped" implies. Sure, RSS still exists in some form, but I think the utility of it has been in decline, and a lot of 'content' simply isn't accessible by RSS feed anymore.

An argument can be made that they provided an RSS reader service no one could come close to matching and basically dominated the area. Google's deep support also helped it proliferate. It is maybe underrated that RSS was likely one defense the web had against the dominance of walled gardens and social media. It allowed a lot of sites to flourish that I think would not get any traction today.

I ride a horse to work. But I will admit the lack of watering holes and places to tie her up outside the supermarket has become a pain.

I mean that it kneecapped the idea of RSS in the social consciousness. Most people believe that when Google Reader shut down RSS stopped existing, if they even knew what RSS was in the first place.

A friend of mine — in tech — asked me the other day where I was hearing a bunch of stuff and I said “my RSS feeds” and he laughed at me. That”s what I mean.

Used to be able to add friends birthdays and events you'd rsvp'd "Going" to your calendar via iCal URLs too. That was so damn useful.

XMPP fully support news feed publication using XMPP Pubsub https://github.com/edhelas/atomtopubsub

Here's the result https://mov.im/community/news.movim.eu/ArsTechnica

The awesome thing is that articles stored in XMPP are actually Atom articles, so there's very little to do.

maybe more an open source zapier and its history goes back way before LLM:s. It is a good no code product for selfhosting (just a user, no connection to the company)

I think it's far more fair to say that developers have agreed to let them use their data (that they will use to reduce dev jobs) in exchange for a service that can almost entirely be easily migrated elsewhere.

If you think MS using github code to train AI is bad, let's be pragmatic about where we're putting the blame or there's no shot we can course correct.

I personally am not looking forward to the pain of losing my job, but I would never presume my job is more important than progress. My job wouldn't even exist if we halted progress to save the jobs.