For anyone looking to adjust their media diet, now’s a great time to consider escaping The Algorithms with RSS.
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Molly Whitereplied to Rhoseigh last edited by [email protected]
@Rhoseigh @travissouthard oops, fixed
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Molly Whitereplied to axleyjc last edited by [email protected]
@axleyjc Inoreader has a browser extension that sniffs them out. A lot of readers also have a place where you can pop in the site URL and it’ll find the feed
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@molly0xfff Do you know if the rss reader apps collect and monetize your information (feeds followed, stories read, etc.)? It looks like most of them don’t “algorithmize” the feed unless you want them to (and it seems to be more under your control).
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@chriswei i imagine it varies depending on the app. any reader that tries to recommend feeds to you is collecting *some* data, but you’d have to check the privacy policy to see what they do with it.
mine does try to recommend feeds, but doesn’t sell the data.
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@chriswei there are also a lot of self-hosted options for RSS readers, so that’s a solid option for someone worried about tracking
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Good point about being selective and avoiding the firehose. Especially if your reading time is limited.
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@molly0xfff your blog link is a 404, should be this: https://www.dashes.com/posts/
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@molly0xfff do you have strong thoughts on RSS vs Atom? Most folks won’t and shouldn’t care, but curious if there are hidden considerations for publishing a feed these days.
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Molly, I subscribed to your OPML list at feedland.org. This means it reads all the feeds in your list, and it's dynamic, so if you add or remove a feed from the list, it will subscribe or unsubscribe.
Here's the page where all the fees are listed.
FeedLand
The first full feed management system. Share lists of feeds with other users, both in and outside of FeedLand. Writing feeds, reading news.
FeedLand (feedland.org)
And a timeline of new posts to all the feeds in your OPML list.
FeedLand
The first full feed management system. Share lists of feeds with other users, both in and outside of FeedLand. Writing feeds, reading news.
FeedLand (feedland.org)
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@molly0xfff I need an RSS feed of your RSS feeds.
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@skippy I don't have strong thoughts
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@SpaceLifeForm yeah — I've built up this list of feeds over years and so I'm used to the volume and pretty good at skimming through it, but it's a lot to just suddenly jack in to
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@molly0xfff with all due respect, I don't think it's ever a good idea to ONLY follow RSS.
For one thing, RSS is generally not used by #RestOfWorld #independent #journalist s.
And second, it disincentivizes discovering new sources.
The only time I think it is worth using RSS for me is if I have someone I like following that I would like to always hear amidst the current chaotic online discourse.
But I will contest the idea that RSS is 'fair' in 2024. Different times, different rhymes.
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@molly0xfff I've been using RSS for a long time. Recently I decided to use it for everything that has a feed and I'm really happy with the result.
My recent additions include:
- Newsletters
- YouTube channels
- websites like Hacker News and Lobsters -
Molly Whitereplied to Ahmet Akkoç last edited by [email protected]
@AhmetAkkoc who said to only use RSS? regarding ROW journalists, even if they don't have RSS feeds, there are some good tools that can ingest webpages to an RSS reader
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@molly0xfff it's a mistake to frame algorithms as bad. Even here, there are far too many toots from people I follow for me to ever read them all. An algorithm that filters for high quality toots I'm interested in would add a lot of value.
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@ddonnell the caps are to denote it's tongue-in-cheek. #NotAllAlgorithms, etc
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@molly0xfff Reminding me of a great #zine I picked up recently RSS is (not) Dead By Audra Mcname. Lovely that they put the full version online!
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@ktneely oh my god that rules
