Still reading @pluralistic 's Chokepoint Capitalism. I'm at the section discussing RSS and podcasts and it's reinforcing my decision to move my podcast listening to #AntennaPod and to lean into #RSS generally (as my recent posts about the demise of #Omnivore and the search for feed readers and read-it-later apps shows).
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if you're on an apple device, you are lucky, because there is @NetNewsWire by @brentsimmons and it is entirely free and fantastic:
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A wholehearted hell yes to RSS by @pluralistic:
"Switching to RSS lets you experience just the good parts of the enshitternet, but that experience is delivered in manner that the new, good internet we're all dying for."
https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/16/keep-it-really-simple-stupid/
My goodness, it's so very easy to set up #RSS feeds in #Thunderbird.
(Thank you, @pluralistic for getting me to finally do this. RSS is POWERFUL.)
We’re proud of our blog (https://letterformarchive.org/news/) where we go deeper than we can in social media, sharing more about design history, with behind-the-scenes looks into our collection, books, and exhibitions.
We’re also advocates of #RSS as an open-web antidote to corporate networks.
That’s why we sheepishly admit that the feed for our blog hasn’t been complete for a while (missing each entry’s subtitle and opening paragraph). This is now fixed! Subscribe/re-subscribe: https://letterformarchive.org/news/feed/
New to #RSS (or want to get back into it)? Here is a great explainer from @pluralistic: https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/16/keep-it-really-simple-stupid/
And here are a couple good readers:
— @NetNewsWire https://netnewswire.com/ (what @stewf has used since for over 15 years)
— @feedbin https://feedbin.com/
We’re proud of our blog (https://letterformarchive.org/news/) where we go deeper than we can in social media, sharing more about design history, with behind-the-scenes looks into our collection, books, and exhibitions.
We’re also advocates of #RSS as an open-web antidote to corporate networks.
That’s why we sheepishly admit that the feed for our blog hasn’t been complete for a while (missing each entry’s subtitle and opening paragraph). This is now fixed! Subscribe/re-subscribe: https://letterformarchive.org/news/feed/
I think that it is a super often shared #mastodon pro tip, but in light of @pluralistic recent plea for #rss i post this again:
You can get an RSS feed for any mastodon account by appending ".rss" to the URL.
My local public transit - @hochbahn - runs a mastodon account and also provides info about service disruptions there. So i just subscribe to that account, instead using apps like Telegram or Notify for it. No ads, no tracking.
Now everyone’s talking about #rss again cause of @pluralistic … I’m gonna recommend https://commafeed.com again!
Never got into the traditional RSS “old school email program” UI, so I love the very scrollable CommaFeed “expanded view”. Free & open source, self host or use their server. Delightful!
#RSS is a pretty neat way to stay up to date on your favorite news(-letters), social media accounts*, podcast and blogs.
This piece by @pluralistic really drives this point home: https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/16/keep-it-really-simple-stupid/#read-receipts-are-you-kidding-me-seriously-fuck-that-noise
Wholeheartedly agree with @pluralistic 's plea to use #RSS, my favourite RSS application is in fact @AntennaPod for podcasts.
Slightly embarrassed to admit I don't really understand how it works, which suggests that vast majority of people don't know it even exists ...
From @pluralistic: "You should be using an #RSS reader."
https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/16/keep-it-really-simple-stupid/#read-receipts-are-you-kidding-me-seriously-fuck-that-noise
https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/16/keep-it-really-simple-stupid/#read-receipts-are-you-kidding-me-seriously-fuck-that-noise
One of the best arguments for RSS you'll ever find.
I was a heavy user of #GoogleReader until G pulled the plug. I haven't found an adequate replacement since then. And I've tried many.
I'm excited by the possibilities of #Mastodon as an RSS reader. If you want to follow a site with an RSS feed, you can follow it on Mastodon with @birb.
I follow dozens of RSS feeds on Mastodon & add new ones almost every day.
#RSS #enshittification #media #news
From @pluralistic :
'Using RSS is a chance to visit a utopian future in which the platforms have no power, and all power is vested in publishers, who get to decide what to publish, and in readers, who have total control over what they read and how, without leaking any personal information through the simple act of reading. And here's the best part: every time you use RSS, you bring that world closer into being! '
@pluralistic I'm a huge fan of RSS feeds for news and blogs and updates and alerts.
Don't forget that RSS also drives the entire core podcast distribution system.
If you are tired of Spotify or Apple or whomever enshittifying your podcast listening experience, you can subscribe to your favourite podcasts via RSS and download them locally using good ole desktop software.
@pkiff @pluralistic email newsletters can be converted into RSS feeds using https://kill-the-newsletter.com/ It's even open sourced, so self-hosting is an option. #RSS #selfhosting
No matter how hard we all wish it were otherwise, the sad fact is that there aren't really individual solutions to systemic problems. For example: your personal diligence in recycling will have no meaningful impact on the climate emergency.
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@pluralistic I'm a huge fan of RSS feeds for news and blogs and updates and alerts.
Don't forget that RSS also drives the entire core podcast distribution system.
If you are tired of Spotify or Apple or whomever enshittifying your podcast listening experience, you can subscribe to your favourite podcasts via RSS and download them locally using good ole desktop software.
As everyone talks about #RSS thanks to @pluralistic 's essay: Some weeks ago I started a little project to help me find interesting stuff to read based on my Mastodon timeline.
I made a very small web app that grabs all the links that are posted in my Mastodon timeline on a given day and at the end of the day aggregates the most frequently posted ones into an RSS feed that updates each night. So in the morning I have a nice little digest.
Code & details are here: https://codeberg.org/gedankenstuecke/mastolink2rss
Apropos Cory Doctorow's @pluralistic article "You should be using an RSS reader"[1], about two years ago I restructured my reading process of online articles to revolve around #RSS[2], and I've been much more happy and productive. Over time, I've found and subscribed to 400+ quality #feeds that are interesting to me, and I've learned so many new things. And the best part is, all of it is delivered to my feed inbox without any algorithmic manipulation or ads.
[1]: https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/16/keep-it-really-simple-stupid/
[2]: https://notes.abhinavsarkar.net/2023/reading-process
Pluralistic: You should be using an RSS reader https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/12/pasticcio-2/
I agree with Doctorow @pluralistic and #RSS was invented by the late genius Aaron Swartz
A must watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M85UvH0TRPc
#RSS #copyright #copywrong
#AaronSwartz#Reddit#TheInternetsOwnBoy
Since @pluralistic recently mentioned using RSS Readers, here's a screen cap of Google Reader in 2011 for Throwback Thursday. Simpler times. #tbt #rss
@pluralistic on why ‘You should be using an #RSS reader’.
One thing @pluralistic doesn't mention in his enthusiastic promotion of #RSS is that every #YouTube channel also has its own RSS feed. On desktop, press Ctrl+u to view the source and then search for /feeds/ .Copy the URI into your RSS reader and voilà! No need to rely on YouTube's terrible notification system; you get notified of each new video when it's posted, and the site can't put any obstacles in your way as they love to do.
https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/16/keep-it-really-simple-stupid/