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 I miss Google Reader and other tools. I stillm blog. I was tired of having my time wasted on purpose by Twitter, FB, and other sites. Now I blog daily. I have for months. I reverted to my old habit during the pandemic when social media became unpleasant.
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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 still exist. You just have to use it.
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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, this! This is why I stopped writing on Medium and started focusing on my own blog, on my own domain. Email is also my preferred way of communication. Email, however, could probably benefit from a more modernised protocol.
I can't confirm this, but I do get a sense people are "moving back" to their own spaces on the web. Perhaps I'm wrong. But I actually much rather read and follow your blog on your domain than follow you on a big platform.
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@Daojoan Yes, this! This is why I stopped writing on Medium and started focusing on my own blog, on my own domain. Email is also my preferred way of communication. Email, however, could probably benefit from a more modernised protocol.
I can't confirm this, but I do get a sense people are "moving back" to their own spaces on the web. Perhaps I'm wrong. But I actually much rather read and follow your blog on your domain than follow you on a big platform.
@mikelundahl I still stick with the Posse approach, personally
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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 why I’m moving off every cloud
️ and putting things in my basement 
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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've actually experienced throttling with e-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.@Daojoan So true.
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@peteramthor @Daojoan I actually liked BBSs. A lot. And Usenet.
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@martin_ueding @patrick_h_lauke @Daojoan yep. What analytics tools are folks using nowadays? Preferably self-hosted!
@denzilferreira @martin_ueding @patrick_h_lauke @Daojoan I use Plausible - because it respects your privacy and you can self host if you want to.
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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 Most of these deserve the effort to grt them running.
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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 IRC chats couldn't be dragged up years later in a job interview. -
@peteramthor @Daojoan When FTP and Newsgroups like alt.something were "all the rage" ( who can forget ftp.funet.fi ) and "anonymous" ( user )
? Ah yes and still in use today IRC .. we can't live without IRC .. -
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 remember this!! So true.
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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 Email not throttling did end up being a bit of a design flaw…
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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, so true. I'm blissfully using RSS to this day, no noise, to-the-point curation with many optiona to expand.
Imho it takes a little effort to setup but there are so many, intelligent options to regain control and denoise 'your' internet
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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@mastodon.social pretty sure RSS did and does track you, actually… maybe not on hobby sites, but remember that not only those support RSS. it's not as advertised anymore, but even large sites like youtube still support it.
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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 And IRC never asked for a boost or for nitro
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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 idk a lot of blogs keep begging me to sign up to newsletters to this very day
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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 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".
Imho, we're not far off.
