{"id":19711,"date":"2023-03-30T12:44:08","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T19:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/?p=19711"},"modified":"2023-03-30T12:44:08","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T19:44:08","slug":"how-im-reading-blogs-and-such","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2023\/03\/30\/how-im-reading-blogs-and-such\/","title":{"rendered":"How I\u2019m reading blogs and such"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>I\u2019ve had a few conversations recently about blogs and Dreamwidth and RSS feeds and how to go about reading them in the modern era, so I thought it was worth posting about the app I\u2019ve been using.<\/p>\r\n<p>It\u2019s called News Explorer, and I should start by noting that it\u2019s Apple-ecosystem-only, so it won\u2019t be useful to y\u2019all Windows and Linux users.<\/p>\r\n<p>I don\u2019t have a particular reason to recommend it over other RSS readers. (I feel like I tried a couple of others and liked this one best, but I don\u2019t remember why I liked it best.) And it\u2019s not free (though there\u2019s a two-week-free-trial version for Mac)\u2014it costs $10 for Mac, and $5 for all-Apple-mobile-devices-together. But it does pretty much what I want it to do, and syncs over iCloud, so I can use it on Mac and iOS and iPadOS.<\/p>\r\n<p>I use it to read the following:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n  <li>Friends\u2019 Dreamwidth posts.<\/li>\r\n  <li>Friends\u2019 blog posts.<\/li>\r\n  <li>A Substack subscription. (I just found out I could use it for Substack; I\u2019ll likely add others soon.)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>I might use it for Patreon posts if I could, but it looks like Patreon doesn\u2019t provide an RSS feed for text posts.<\/p>\r\n<p>Newspapers also offer various sorts of RSS feeds. I don\u2019t think I would want to read news in this app, but there may be some feeds from news venues that I would want to se there; for example, I just added the feed for Alexandra Petri\u2019s column.<\/p>\r\n<p>Anyway, I don\u2019t see the world going back to blogs anytime soon, but it is a nice way to be able to keep up with friends who don\u2019t post on FB or Mastodon (or at least don\u2019t post much in those places).<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,113,4,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-communication","category-journaling","category-social-networking"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19712,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19711\/revisions\/19712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}