RSS never tracked you.
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RSS never tracked you.
Email never throttled you.
Blogs never begged for dopamine.
The old web wasn’t perfect.
But it was yours.@Daojoan Email not throttling did end up being a bit of a design flaw…
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RSS never tracked you.
Email never throttled you.
Blogs never begged for dopamine.
The old web wasn’t perfect.
But it was yours.@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
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RSS never tracked you.
Email never throttled you.
Blogs never begged for dopamine.
The old web wasn’t perfect.
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RSS never tracked you.
Email never throttled you.
Blogs never begged for dopamine.
The old web wasn’t perfect.
But it was yours.@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.
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RSS never tracked you.
Email never throttled you.
Blogs never begged for dopamine.
The old web wasn’t perfect.
But it was yours.@Daojoan@mastodon.social And IRC never asked for a boost or for nitro
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RSS never tracked you.
Email never throttled you.
Blogs never begged for dopamine.
The old web wasn’t perfect.
But it was yours.@Daojoan idk a lot of blogs keep begging me to sign up to newsletters to this very day
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RSS never tracked you.
Email never throttled you.
Blogs never begged for dopamine.
The old web wasn’t perfect.
But it was yours.@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".
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@Daojoan Hi everyone
Please post your top-3 RSS feeds as a reply to this comment
@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 idk a lot of blogs keep begging me to sign up to newsletters to this very day
@mitsunee I think that’s partly due to the broader decline in rss use
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@mitsunee I think that’s partly due to the broader decline in rss use
@Daojoan if that decline started like 15 years ago yeah sure
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@Daojoan the internet has changed significantly, now it the time to take it back!
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.
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RSS never tracked you.
Email never throttled you.
Blogs never begged for dopamine.
The old web wasn’t perfect.
But it was yours.♫ Welcome To The Internet
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RSS never tracked you.
Email never throttled you.
Blogs never begged for dopamine.
The old web wasn’t perfect.
But it was yours.@Daojoan May I use that quote in a talk?
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@Daojoan I wish the major browsers would bring back built in RSS!
@scottwhat @Daojoan what if someone made alternative? like also newsfeeds but just in other format
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@Daojoan Hi everyone
Please post your top-3 RSS feeds as a reply to this comment
@sorenladegaard @Daojoan mostly one - wikipedia article of day 🤪
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@Daojoan Even these got ruined nowadays. RSS feeds often don't have the full article text. Email contains tracking pixels and links. "Blogs" have texts behind paywalls and cookie warnings. We need the old web back.
@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 -
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@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@thefranke @Daojoan Didn't know about (1), that's brilliant, thanks!
I made some custom RSS exporters for myself as well for sites that don't have a feed
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RSS never tracked you.
Email never throttled you.
Blogs never begged for dopamine.
The old web wasn’t perfect.
But it was yours.@Daojoan rss can be injected tracking and so can emails (e.g. via a tracking image). outlook and gmail are really hostile to self-hosted email services. blogs can have ads and other anti-features.
at the very end, you don't really own domains and IPs; big companies rent them to you.
what matters is never what kind of tech you use, but rather how you use it and why.
