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
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.
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@Daojoan Yep, I've noticed that lately I've been regressing my tech a bit, and it feels great. Also, old models with new tooling makes for a better experience, as long as that tooling isn't made by the corps that got us in the current mess.
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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 Forgot "forums".
I'm here on Mastodn and elsewhere, but realy missing that web. -
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@Daojoan truth
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@jackemled @Daojoan oh I agree, and I do.
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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. -
No, but I might still force refresh the feeds in my comics category on my RSS reader to ensure I've seen all the day's "funny papers."
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@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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@HeckinChonker @Daojoan it's an agreeable evaluation.
Hopefully, the hit at the bottom of the slope will kill the idiotic self-perpetuating narratives that drag our species down into unnecessary-problems-hell
