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 BBSs never drowned you in BS.
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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 website for my music has rss and zero tracking.
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Email has its flaws, but it's the lingu-franca of communications.
Pretty much the first thing I do in any _other_ communication platform is enable email notifications. SalesForce, Trello, Jira, GitHub, Teams, Chatter, Yammer, Slack, or whatever the latest $DAYJOB hawtness is for improving team communication? Send it all to email. If it doesn't show up in my email inbox, it might as well not exist.
Tangentially, I use rss2email, so even my RSS feeds show up in my email

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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 still use/do all of them - its up to us to keep it that way ...
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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 Thankfully it's all still there. I can't for sure that life is better without Instagram or TikTok, as I've never used either, but I can tell you I still enjoy the many blogs I read, the forums I frequent, and the emails I exchange with good people.
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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
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I just want to remind you all. @Daojoan https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan/114587431688413845
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@temptoetiam @Andres @Daojoan Thanks, i'd never thought of doing that; Schema/syntax for rssing blusky accounts:
Eg.
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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 Completely agree, back then we were there for genuine user engagement and demand, not some algorithmic mission to the top
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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 the Internet didn't change itself. People have the power to regulate the Internet. Unfortunately too many of us are suicidal racists.
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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
Was?
It's still around. -
@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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@Daojoan I wish the major browsers would bring back built in RSS!
@scottwhat
FeedBro is a nifty extension.
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@Daojoan IRC never died
@JennyFluff
Neither did XMPP.
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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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… except for Google mail…
@Monolecte @Daojoan and RSS. Most podcast comes from podcasting platfirms that tracks the audio file download
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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 IMHO it was perfect

and it is still - I still mostly use RSS and email

however: "Email never throttled you." -- yes, you could have been blocklisted

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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 cama back to rss and xmpp. https://jurkiewicz.pro/bezpieczenstwo-wyzwanie-5-krokow/
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