RSS never tracked you.

[gilesgoat@toot.wales]

@peteramthor @Daojoan When FTP and Newsgroups like alt.something were "all the rage" ( who can forget ftp.funet.fi ) and "anonymous" ( user ) ? Ah yes and still in use today IRC .. we can't live without IRC ..

[catswhocode@twoot.site]

@Daojoan I remember this!! So true.

[gormster@theblower.au]

@Daojoan Email not throttling did end up being a bit of a design flaw…

[doctormad@mastodon.online]

@Daojoan Yes, so true. I'm blissfully using RSS to this day, no noise, to-the-point curation with many optiona to expand.
Imho it takes a little effort to setup but there are so many, intelligent options to regain control and denoise 'your' internet

[lispi314@udongein.xyz]

@Daojoan @mattof I've seen both aggressive caps and throttling on email.

Still, email is suitable for batch interaction so it's okay.

[_r@donotsta.re]

@Daojoan@mastodon.social pretty sure RSS did and does track you, actually… maybe not on hobby sites, but remember that not only those support RSS. it’s not as advertised anymore, but even large sites like youtube still support it.

[nyovaya@transfem.social]

@Daojoan@mastodon.social And IRC never asked for a boost or for nitro

[mitsunee@ieji.de]

@Daojoan idk a lot of blogs keep begging me to sign up to newsletters to this very day

[unlucio@mastodon.social]

@Daojoan I used to be surprised by the internet looking immune to the hype cycle.
In recent years, I realized we have just been on the 1st slope and we're approaching the "Peak of inflated expectations".
Once it's a repository of mostly fake generated stuff, we'll quickly reach the "Trough of disillusionment".
Imho, we're not far off.

[huguesross@mastodon.art]

@sorenladegaard @Daojoan Top 3's hard when you follow a lot of topics, but here are a few fun ones:
- https://acoup.blog/feed/ Blog run by a historian, mix of deep dives into antiquity and talking about pop culture
- https://nekonavi.jp/archives/author/kyuryuz/feed Cute Japanese webcomic about living with a cat
- https://tasvideos.org/publications.rss A feed of every new Tool-Assisted Speedrun posted to the tasvideos site, mixed bag but some are wild lol

[daojoan@mastodon.social]

@mitsunee I think that’s partly due to the broader decline in rss use

[mitsunee@ieji.de]

@Daojoan if that decline started like 15 years ago yeah sure

[reggiehere@mastodon.social]

@BestCryptoTwits @Daojoan

Most of the old internet is still there, it's just been buried by the corporate web and largely ignored by smartfones.

What we need is a way to convince our friends and family to ditch their corporate theft-and-nudge-ware and pick up the old open protocols.

[fluxxdog@app.wafrn.net]

♫ Welcome To The Internet
♫ Have a look around… ♪

[derickr@phpc.social]

@Daojoan May I use that quote in a talk?

[gamerposter@pol.social]

@scottwhat @Daojoan what if someone made alternative? like also newsfeeds but just in other format

[gamerposter@pol.social]

@sorenladegaard @Daojoan mostly one - wikipedia article of day 🤪

[thefranke@graphics.social]

@forst @Daojoan I use two solutions for this more and more:

1. Some readers like NetNewsWire have a builtin readability mode. They take the URL of the RSS entry, run it through reader mode and present it as if it were the RSS entry itself. Works fantastic even on feeds that only push a URL and no text at all.
2. I coded a read-it-later service for myself that extracts entries and pushes them to a feed I subscribe to, it’s here: https://github.com/thefranke/rss-librarian

[jamesbritt@mastodon.social]

@creatures@plush.city @_r @Daojoan

Some sites include essentially an entire web page in the item content, and depending on your reader images and such will be fetched, including any tracking codes.

OTOH I am unaware of rss readers handling cookies, so that stops some tracking.

[jamesbritt@mastodon.social]

@creatures@plush.city @_r @Daojoan

I have an otherwise great rss reader that fetches images. Mixed blessing.