Richard MacManus
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I look back at the dawn of blogging and RSS in 1999. At the start of that year, a small community of "loggers" were designing and writing weblogs, but it wasn't until the launch of Blogger in August '99 that it became easy for non-techies to publish a blog. Alongside this, Netscape and Dave Winer had early versions of RSS — Netscape's was the official RSS format at this time, but it was very limited. https://cybercultural.com/p/blogs-rss-1999/ #InternetHistory #blogging #RSS
All Europeans 🇪🇺
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Newsletter: In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder.
Here’s how to use #RSS.
I look back at the dawn of blogging and RSS in 1999. At the start of that year, a small community of "loggers" were designing and writing weblogs, but it wasn't until the launch of Blogger in August '99 that it became easy for non-techies to publish a blog. Alongside this, Netscape and Dave Winer had early versions of RSS — Netscape's was the official RSS format at this time, but it was very limited. https://cybercultural.com/p/blogs-rss-1999/ #InternetHistory #blogging #RSS
It's easy to forget now, but the Netscape versions of #RSS in 1991 were not first-class citizens of the web — in 0.90 you could only include post headlines, and in 0.91 the 'description' tag was limited to 500 characters. At this time, Dave Winer had his own 'scriptingnews' XML format, and he was pushing Netscape to expand the allowable content. In retrospect, he was totally right — and eventually RSS 2.0 did that of course.
(p.s. unfortunately Dave seems to be blocking me, so I can't tag him)
I look back at the dawn of blogging and RSS in 1999. At the start of that year, a small community of "loggers" were designing and writing weblogs, but it wasn't until the launch of Blogger in August '99 that it became easy for non-techies to publish a blog. Alongside this, Netscape and Dave Winer had early versions of RSS — Netscape's was the official RSS format at this time, but it was very limited. https://cybercultural.com/p/blogs-rss-1999/ #InternetHistory #blogging #RSS
alcinnz
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- Choose an RSS reader. I use Inoreader, but there are a bunch of options out there (free and paid, mobile/web/desktop). Switching between them is pretty easy, so you don’t have to agonize over this too much.
The sudden urge to build a social network around #RSS. 😅
(It surely has been done before, I don’t have time for it anyway, but that urge is strong right now. 😅)
(I just crave a less centralised WWW, I think, where small blogs can shine just as much as huge publications. But with the dopamine hits of liking and being liked.)
¡Abbie!
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I'm always ridiculously shy to share my own work, yet always happy to champion others. I don't know why, I guess I'm aware of how little people like to have products pushed at them.
Anyway, I'm trying to be better because I really am proud of my two blogs, both of which would be legal adults now if they were kids. I make them as accessible as possible with no ads.
Emm in London is about #travel, #photography and hometown tourism
https://www.emminlondon.com
Addicted to Media is where I post my #horror reviews, and very occasional music and book reviews
https://www.addictedtomedia.net
Both blogs have #rss feeds but I'm going to try post here each time I publish. I'll use dedicated hashtags which people can mute if they'd rather not see them.
Are there any other travel / photo / horror bloggers on here who'd like to connect?
I'm always ridiculously shy to share my own work, yet always happy to champion others. I don't know why, I guess I'm aware of how little people like to have products pushed at them.
Anyway, I'm trying to be better because I really am proud of my two blogs, both of which would be legal adults now if they were kids. I make them as accessible as possible with no ads.
Emm in London is about #travel, #photography and hometown tourism
https://www.emminlondon.com
Addicted to Media is where I post my #horror reviews, and very occasional music and book reviews
https://www.addictedtomedia.net
Both blogs have #rss feeds but I'm going to try post here each time I publish. I'll use dedicated hashtags which people can mute if they'd rather not see them.
Are there any other travel / photo / horror bloggers on here who'd like to connect?
Evan Prodromou
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Neville Park
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Hey Fedi! I’m absolutely done with Feedly’s obsession with AI so I’m looking for RSS reader suggestions. My primary use case is reading from an office environment so something browser-based that doesn’t involve installing anything is ideal, I use iOS/MacOS at home but that’s optional. I don’t mind paying a small subscription for the right tool but I don’t need “features”, I just need an RSS reader. (Not opposed to something that also catches your newsletters, which seems to be an option now.)
Thanks!
Hey Fedi! I’m absolutely done with Feedly’s obsession with AI so I’m looking for RSS reader suggestions. My primary use case is reading from an office environment so something browser-based that doesn’t involve installing anything is ideal, I use iOS/MacOS at home but that’s optional. I don’t mind paying a small subscription for the right tool but I don’t need “features”, I just need an RSS reader. (Not opposed to something that also catches your newsletters, which seems to be an option now.)
Thanks!
Jess Mahler
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For the night crew, If you use RSS like I do, take a day and go through your feed reader and clean it out. If there’s a publication you don’t read for a long time, just literally get rid of the feed. I had to get rid of a lot of feeds today because more and more are posting really great things behind a pay wall. I can still read it, but I can’t share it. I figured those kind of publications aren’t worth keeping around honestly. I also got rid of a lot of feeds that only publish excerpts and make me visit there website. If the article is good, I’ll share the article, if you make me leave my feed reader to read what you had to say, it’s not worth reading. #RSS#FediTips
For the night crew, If you use RSS like I do, take a day and go through your feed reader and clean it out. If there’s a publication you don’t read for a long time, just literally get rid of the feed. I had to get rid of a lot of feeds today because more and more are posting really great things behind a pay wall. I can still read it, but I can’t share it. I figured those kind of publications aren’t worth keeping around honestly. I also got rid of a lot of feeds that only publish excerpts and make me visit there website. If the article is good, I’ll share the article, if you make me leave my feed reader to read what you had to say, it’s not worth reading. #RSS#FediTips