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 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. -
@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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@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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@thefranke @Daojoan I use NetNewsWire, and it also allows this per-feed, as it turned out. Immediately enabled on the offenders.
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@thefranke @Daojoan A custom Python thing, I write in what I'm familiar with. But I'm open to porting it if it can benefit more people
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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. -
@thefranke @Daojoan A custom Python thing, I write in what I'm familiar with. But I'm open to porting it if it can benefit more people
@forst @Daojoan Are you familiar with this project? https://rss-bridge.org
Basically a PHP framework where you can easily write bridges that scrape a webpage and turn them into a feed, caching and everything else is already managed by the framework.
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@forst @Daojoan Are you familiar with this project? https://rss-bridge.org
Basically a PHP framework where you can easily write bridges that scrape a webpage and turn them into a feed, caching and everything else is already managed by the framework.
@thefranke @Daojoan Wasn't familiar with it until now, thank you for sharing!
Don't know how interested they would be in a plugin for a very local website, but could be a fun little project -
@thefranke @Daojoan Wasn't familiar with it until now, thank you for sharing!
Don't know how interested they would be in a plugin for a very local website, but could be a fun little project -
RSS never tracked you.
Email never throttled you.
Blogs never begged for dopamine.
The old web wasn’t perfect.
But it was yours.@Daojoan
Don’t think I ever got spam on USENET. -
RSS never tracked you.
Email never throttled you.
Blogs never begged for dopamine.
The old web wasn’t perfect.
But it was yours.@Daojoan fond memories of gopher, newsgroups and irc!
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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 to paraphrase the musk: legalize community!
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@sirber@jasette.facil.services @Daojoan RSS still works so well. It's a shame that the broader public doesn't know it exists. My newsfeed is always so interesting and way more diverse in scope and opinion than any algorithmic feed I've ever used.
