RSS never tracked you.

[dayna12121@mastodon.social]

@Daojoan Totally feel this. The old web had soul—messy, personal, and real. You made your corner, shared what mattered, and no one was chasing likes. It wasn’t perfect, but it felt human. Maybe it’s time we reclaim a bit of that.

[neuhaus@mastodon.acm.org]

@Daojoan there are individual RSS feeds that track you, you know? There‘s even a wikipedia page on RSS tracking

[denzilferreira@techhub.social]

@martin_ueding @patrick_h_lauke @Daojoan yep. What analytics tools are folks using nowadays? Preferably self-hosted!

[hejsimon@mastodon.social]

@neuhaus true, and I'm old enough to remember when every blog used feedburner for their RSS-feeds. Still, the web was funnier and in a sense better back then hehe @Daojoan

[taatm@mathstodon.xyz]

@Daojoan @HollyGoDarkly
It also never left.

It’s still there.

We just need to use it!

[dzamie@app.wafrn.net]

I still use RSS to track YouTube channels and podcast episodes at home, and a couple news outlets at work.
YouTube will block you if you set up an automated refresh, so you do have to refresh that particular feed manually, but it works fine otherwise. Even loads shorts as normal videos, which is a much better experience.

#text

[pierstoval@mastodon.social]

@Daojoan back then the only tracker was a php-generated image counting the number of visitors and incrementing it on every new session, and it was awesome

[bayindirh@mastodon.sdf.org]

@ainmosni @Daojoan
When we solve older tech's problem with today's capabilities, older tech becomes better and more useful. This is what I do, too.

[sorenladegaard@social.vivaldi.net]

@Daojoan Hi everyone

Please post your top-3 RSS feeds as a reply to this comment

[richardazia@indieweb.social]

@Daojoan I miss Google Reader and other tools. I stillm blog. I was tired of having my time wasted on purpose by Twitter, FB, and other sites. Now I blog daily. I have for months. I reverted to my old habit during the pandemic when social media became unpleasant.

[yora@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@Daojoan It still exist. You just have to use it.

[mikelundahl@mastodon.world]

@Daojoan Yes, this! This is why I stopped writing on Medium and started focusing on my own blog, on my own domain. Email is also my preferred way of communication. Email, however, could probably benefit from a more modernised protocol.

I can't confirm this, but I do get a sense people are "moving back" to their own spaces on the web. Perhaps I'm wrong. But I actually much rather read and follow your blog on your domain than follow you on a big platform.

[daojoan@mastodon.social]

@mikelundahl I still stick with the Posse approach, personally

[bh@suarez.social]

@Daojoan this is why I’m moving off every cloud ️ and putting things in my basement

[ben@kwiecien.us]

@Daojoan I've actually experienced throttling with e-mail

[martinlentink@mastodon.social]

@Daojoan So true.

[martinlentink@mastodon.social]

@peteramthor @Daojoan I actually liked BBSs. A lot. And Usenet.

[mrbase@phpc.social]

@denzilferreira @martin_ueding @patrick_h_lauke @Daojoan I use Plausible - because it respects your privacy and you can self host if you want to.

[neromabene@mastodon.social]

@Daojoan Most of these deserve the effort to grt them running.

[nicro@fedi.absturztau.be]

@Daojoan IRC chats couldn't be dragged up years later in a job interview.