Space Hobo

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Oh hi there, identi.ca.  I forgot all about you, because you no longer support RSS in any useful fashion.  You're Just Another Web Site To Go Check instead of something I can subscribe to next to all the rest.

NNTP, IRC, XMPP, whatever: I'd take any protocol that people are already using for other things!  But telling me I can install A Special App to read this is even less compelling than "remember to go to that one Web site frequently"!
Still no way to generate a stream of "stuff I would have seen on the web page".

Space Hobo at 11 years ago

That is, in status.net I could subscribe to my stream, and see everything I'd actually get on my user page.  With pump2rss, I'd have to enter each wotsit I follow one at a time to make a disjointed flow of stuff, and I'd have to work to keep it in sync.  Syndication is supposed to automate, not make more work.

Space Hobo at 11 years ago

Oh neat, and https://pump2rss.com/feed/bkuhn@identi.ca.atom is blank because he only sends to contacts.

Space Hobo at 11 years ago