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 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.
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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 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.
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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 ...and for that, it was perfect to me...
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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 RSS tracking was absolutely a thing even in early days, but I agree with the sentiment.
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@Daojoan if that decline started like 15 years ago yeah sure
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@Daojoan it's still there, I'm convinced we've just collectively forgotten how to surf the web
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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.
@ReggieHere @Daojoan Yeah it has gotten so out of hand I have really decentralized my content creation to multiple platforms now
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@JeffGrigg @Daojoan pathetic penis pill pushing profiteers. Not just the placebos, but mostly.
As a moderator I always said,
"If you can explain how that helps a person do 'refactoring - improving the structure of code without changing its function' then I'll allow it, ruling it 'on-topic' for this group. Otherwise, you're 'off-topic.' And banned."And well, …
It was *always* the banned thing.
