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My feeling is that it interferes a lot with "the social media algorithms" and hence with the "infinite wall of random stuff from people you don't know". In the
by palata 3mo ago
My feeling is that it interferes a lot with "the social media algorithms" and hence with the "infinite wall of random stuff from people you don't know".
In the last few years I have been going back to RSS feeds, subscribing to blogs I like. What I lose there is that I don't get suggestions for blogs I don't already know.
I genuinely wonder if there could be an opportunity for webrings there. Like blogs could have an RSS feed of "blogs I follow" by the author, and I could choose to follow them or at least visit them and selectively subscribe.
The thing is that many times, there is one article I like in a blog but not necessarily the rest. So more than "blogs I follow", it could be "articles I liked". So that if I subscribe to the RSS feed of someone, I get exposed to articles they "bookmarked", and eventually it can help me discover blogs I want to subscribe to.
Or maybe it all exists already. Or used to exist, probably.
- floren 3mo agoA del.icio.us idea
- rrvsh 3mo agohttps://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/openring https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/openring https://github.com/lukehsiao/openring-rs https://github.com/lukehsiao/openring-rs seen these around
- Henchman21 3mo agoYou know, I'll be that guy and say the following: Since you stepped back in time, I went back even further. I just stopped consuming content on the web that isn't YouTube, this site, or Kagi News. It's all crap in my estimation and I'm better off without it polluting my brain. Still need to kick HN & YouTube though, it's a WIP. Maybe someday I'll regain the focus to read books in a single sitting again.
- palata 3mo ago> I went back even further Further than carefully selecting the articles I read? I don't understand... I occasionally watch a video on YouTube, but again it's carefully selected. I feel like you're telling me that watching a video on YouTube is bad, but watching the exact same video on a DVD is "old school" and therefore better. I don't mind so much about the fact that I get it over the Internet, I care about quality. I subscribe to a handful of carefully-selected blogs through RSS as a way to easily see when they publish something new (which is rare, because it's quality).