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 but...but...KPIs! engagement metrics!
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@Andres they can have my RSS reader when they pry it from my cold dead hands
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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 it's still there, I'm convinced we've just collectively forgotten how to surf the web
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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.Now that's some nostalgia I can get behind.
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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 A friend of mine got a bill from Telekom for replying to a mailing list - each recipient was billed separately, and only 200 e-mails per month were included.
But that was maybe an even older web
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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.I will say that email platforms absolutely definitely throttled you but only in the same way that a human person was not allowed to stick a hundred thousand pieces of lettermail in the corner box.
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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 warning: Message delivery request rate limit exceeded: 50 from hostname Daojan
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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 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.
But it was yours.As always, it's what happens to a good thing when money grabbing capitalists abuse it for monetary gain.
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@Andres they can have my RSS reader when they pry it from my cold dead hands
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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 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 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.
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@undefined_variable @Daojoan I still use IRC on a daily basis. It's not gone.
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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 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
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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 Old web gave serotonin. Mmmm.
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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 this is just euphoric recall - at least nor/xor you have total recall
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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 join the "well actually" crowd, email absolutely did have throttling, although retry and backoff logic tended to be much more reliable and well-tested back then
there was a lot of the old internet that wasn't democratized and "yours" (e.g. acquiring connectivity, acquiring compute), although the details have shifted around a lot
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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.
cat /var/log/nginx/access.logEmail never throttled 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 I wish the major browsers would bring back built in RSS!
