RSS never tracked you
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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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Email never throttled you.
Blogs never begged for dopamine.
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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 -
RSS never tracked you.
Email never throttled you.
Blogs never begged for dopamine.
The old web wasn’t perfect.
But it was yours.@Daojoan But it wasn't pretty and easy enough for some people. As in, the general public.
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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 one of my sayings of late is
"We used to make our own web pages...!"
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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 no tracking on RSS? You wish!
Aside from obvious tracking pixels there are somewhat smart ways: When hitting the subscribe URL do a 301 "Moved Permanently" redirect to a feed URL containing a custom ID, a "good" feed reader will then store that URL and then all links and media references can contain the ID to track. This won't track when exactly you read the feed content, but will track when embedded d images are loaded (smart people block that) or click on a link (to full article?)
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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. -
RSS never tracked you.
Email never throttled you.
Blogs never begged for dopamine.
The old web wasn’t perfect.
But it was yours.@Daojoan
It was respectful. That is what we traded. -
RSS never tracked you.
Email never throttled you.
Blogs never begged for dopamine.
The old web wasn’t perfect.
But it was yours.Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I wonder — when will we see a new kind of Internet?
One where the citizens control the servers, free from GAFAM and global powers, built to ensure open sharing for society and our democracies — even if it's imperfect.
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@lunareclipse@snug.moe @mitsunee@ieji.de @Daojoan@mastodon.social that matches what i remember, and would indeed be about 15 years ago
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RSS never tracked you.
Email never throttled you.
Blogs never begged for dopamine.
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But it was yours.@Daojoan@mastodon.social we were clearly not using the same internet as each other. -
@peteramthor @Daojoan I actually liked BBSs. A lot. And Usenet.
@martinlentink @peteramthor @Daojoan
Usenet was my first love.
I started with a First Class client. Oh, suddenly got reminded of the period PowWow existed. -
RSS never tracked you.
Email never throttled you.
Blogs never begged for dopamine.
The old web wasn’t perfect.
But it was yours.… except for Google mail…
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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.
