In case you have been wondering why I have kept quiet -- I've been experimenting reading feeds on a FreshRSS instance as an alternative to social media. Hope it sticks.
When Spotify entered the podcast world, audio producer Alex Sujong Laughlin was wary — and with good reason, since back when she was a social media editor working at The Washington Post, she saw the devastating effect some private tech companies have had on media and journalism. She's sad to be proved right. "Spotify — along with many other companies — wants to create a closed ecosystem for the creation, distribution, and consumption of podcasts, bypassing RSS technology altogether because that would allow them to harvest more listener data to leverage with advertisers," she writes in this story for Defector. Luckily, she says it's not too late to take back our feeds. "You don’t have to understand the technology of RSS to choose to listen to your podcasts on an open app. You can just choose to do it." [Story may be paywalled]
I fucking hate news letters and just because ben from questing beast and the people from mothership (who seem like pretty nice people) say you should have one doesn't mean you should have one, or that it should be ok for you to handle strangers' emails
Why can't we rely on freaking #RSS. This is what RSS is for!!
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That accident of history ended up more meaningful to me: while I am most well-known for Stratechery, I am equally proud of the paid newsletter model — services like Substack were based on Stratechery [...]
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I had no idea the link was that explicit. Indeed, the linked interview with Substack founder explicitly says they were inspired by Ben Thompson's Stretchery blog.
RSS is amazing! But do you know what is even better? RSS feeds that can be rendered by a browser and explain to a user the concept of #RSS.
@darekkay wrote a really nice blog post on how to do that and I adapted it for a #Django project i am working on. Even if you are not interested in Django it might be an interesting introduction and I highly recommend checking out the examples and Darek's blog post.
I dunno why i was looking around for another newsreader - sure the preview window could use an articles image BUT its just doing its job - No adds - No AI / Suggestion bs about what i should also read
its just an App doing what im expecting it to do
read from the sources and gimme em uuuh rss i 🧡 uuuuu
Oh, by the way, if I'm one of your subscribers on Substack and you see me unsubscribe, it's not you... it's not me either... It's mostly Substack and the fact that I'd like to regain control of my mailbox (and stop missing the actual emails I need to reply to and that get drowned into all the Substack posts)
If I read you, don't worry, I still follow you and read you in my RSS feed (actually it's more likely that I'll read you there than in my inbox)
lembrei de quando eu seguia os tutes do @augustocc via rss
isso foi no começo de ano passado, eu ainda não tinha Mastodon, estava aprendendo a explorar o rss e tinha recebido a recomendação do perfil de Augusto por meio do fórum Órbita, do Manual do Usuário
acabei abandonando esse feed do Augusto, porque eu sempre ficava perdido quando ele respondia alguém kk
that you don't even have to sign in/sign up for! You can even read my innovative, revolutionary, disruptive, #RSS feed for free! https://robertkingett.com/
Ne du, so was wie #DuckDuckGo, #StartPage & #Ecosia liefern Daten ihrer Crawler wie #Bing (M$) und/oder #Google. Pseudonymisiert ist nicht anonym, denn die sind vertraglich dazu verpflichtet.
🧵 …eine spezifische Suchmaschine nur für Blogs und Podcasts ist @feedle, nicht wie die oben erwähnten. Die Ergebnisse sind Hauptsächlich auf Englisch aber doch sehr spannend und umfangreich. Somit lässt sich leicht die gewünschten RSS und/oder Atom Feeds finden um die online Medien zu abonnieren.
"Die Anmeldung zu unserer Sommerfreizeit Hack'n'Sun in Bonn ist eröffnet 🥳!" (teckids.org) (bildung.social) German
via @Teckids...