RSS never tracked you

@Daojoan So true.

@peteramthor @Daojoan I actually liked BBSs. A lot. And Usenet.

@denzilferreira @martin_ueding @patrick_h_lauke @Daojoan I use Plausible - because it respects your privacy and you can self host if you want to.

@Daojoan Most of these deserve the effort to grt them running.

@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 ..

@Daojoan I remember this!! So true.

@Daojoan Email not throttling did end up being a bit of a design flaw…

@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

@Daojoan @mattof I've seen both aggressive caps and throttling on email.

Still, email is suitable for batch interaction so it's okay.

@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.

@Daojoan@mastodon.social And IRC never asked for a boost or for nitro

@Daojoan idk a lot of blogs keep begging me to sign up to newsletters to this very day

@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.

@sorenladegaard @Daojoan Top 3's hard when you follow a lot of topics, but here are a few fun ones:
- https://acoup.blog/feed/ Blog run by a historian, mix of deep dives into antiquity and talking about pop culture
- https://nekonavi.jp/archives/author/kyuryuz/feed Cute Japanese webcomic about living with a cat
- https://tasvideos.org/publications.rss A feed of every new Tool-Assisted Speedrun posted to the tasvideos site, mixed bag but some are wild lol

@mitsunee I think that’s partly due to the broader decline in rss use

@Daojoan if that decline started like 15 years ago yeah sure

@BestCryptoTwits @Daojoan

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.

@creatures @Daojoan anything that makes requests to a server makes you trackable, just like tracker pixels e.g. in emails. And then there's of course the RSS contents themselves, which again can contain resources upon resources - images, video, audio, external CSS I believe is also supported … it's basically just a webpage without JS. your user agent and especially IP address can still be used for tracking.

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