RSS never tracked you
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@forst Problem with that is - we often paywall our stuff these days so that it isn’t all just scraped and summarised by a smorgasbord of bots. It’s such a balancing problem
@Daojoan hello I've been following your post for a while most say you are part of the reason I'm still on here
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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
Yeah!
The old web is still there.
I use RSS with fluent-reader
I use email with #deltachat
I use a blog with own domainYou just have to ignore the commercial Social Media and advertising with f.e. uBlock, then you'll see it
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@Daojoan my Dragonball Z angelfire fan page with an endless scroll of stolen gifs however did beg for dopamine
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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
To me, they are just passive web, much unlike the active web now.
They will never die, unlike the companys. -
RSS never tracked you.
Email never throttled you.
Blogs never begged for dopamine.
The old web wasn’t perfect.
But it was yours.Usenet news groups stayed on topic!
They were organized by topic.
I keep wondering why we abandoned that idea.
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(Well yes, it's still there and one can still use it. But so much of it has been taken over by robots pushing spam.
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@Daojoan blogs definitely begged for dopamine, but it was slower release than the kind we have now.
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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 @lisamelton Hell, now most people use a browser that’s spyware from a marketing company. Dark times.
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@Daojoan @lisamelton Hell, now most people use a browser that’s spyware from a marketing company. Dark times.
@mingistech @lisamelton Indeed.
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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! Agreed!
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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.You clearly never owed Email money.
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Stop romanticizing the old web. It's flawed but should be acknowledged for what it is.
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@Daojoan but...but...KPIs! engagement metrics!
@patrick_h_lauke @Daojoan noticed how they never measure engagement with family and friends? Set KPIs for mental wellbeing and sleep cycle? It's like they work for big psychiatry!
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Usenet news groups stayed on topic!
They were organized by topic.
I keep wondering why we abandoned that idea.
...
(Well yes, it's still there and one can still use it. But so much of it has been taken over by robots pushing spam.
)@JeffGrigg @Daojoan pathetic penis pill pushing profiteers. Not just the placebos, but mostly.
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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 Gemini and Gopher are still a thing fwiw. Check out Lagrange
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Now that's some nostalgia I can get behind.
@joeinwynnewood @Daojoan That's literally my daily life. It's still here, you just need to look.
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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 is it really the old web? What's the new Web then?
I'd argue that the same proponents that label these technologies old, are the same ones trying to break the Web and other open standards. RSS, Email, blogs and other internet technologies are still the current open internet. We never had successors to them.
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@Daojoan but...but...KPIs! engagement metrics!
@patrick_h_lauke @Daojoan inflated by bots 🤪
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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 Totally feel this. The old web had soul—messy, personal, and real. You made your corner, shared what mattered, and no one was chasing likes. It wasn’t perfect, but it felt human. Maybe it’s time we reclaim a bit of that.
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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 there are individual RSS feeds that track you, you know? There‘s even a wikipedia page on RSS tracking
