To follow through on my pledge to do more of my #internet reading on the #indieweb, I've been visiting random blogs using this site and adding any interesting ones to an #RSS feed.
My intention is to browse this feed much the same way I would the news -call it a self-care practice. I want to spend more time in reflection and less in panic. I also want to get ideas for, perhaps, my own blog someday.
@itsfoss
I've been using it for a while and it's pretty awesome. The one feature that I really miss though is being able to 🔍 search for specific articles and texts. That's a deal breaker for me so stick with 🍮 Handy News Reader.
The Thunderbird Beta channel just updated to version 126.0b1, and it brings major visual improvements to Cards View! 😍
(Shown here with all visible messages selected.)
A big round of applause to Micah and Sol from our UX team for their awesome work on this, and to our community for your valuable feedback here and on our #Thunderbird UX mailing list (https://thunderbird.topicbox.com/groups/ux).
@thunderbird That's cool. But I'm getting more and more worried about the state of the #RSS reader in #thunderbird
Before, it read all the feeds on my list of feeds to read. No sweat, no drama. Now it's reading less and less of a chunk. It' starts reading and then simply stops without telling me why. I'm having to subdivide the list into sublists and call the reader on each to have them read in full. That's very annoying. And time-consuming.
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]
‘Many Have Happily Accepted Media Bigotry As The Truth.’ New Book Explores The Place Of Muslims In Hindu India
‘Being Muslim in Hindu India’ is Ziya Us Salam’s eighth book and probably his grimmest work. In this interview, he discusses the Indian Muslim identity under Hindutva, the upcoming general elections and what patriotism means to him.
Yeah, this is why I say that @potus forced the hand of the Fediverse.
Like it or not, most Americans want to see President Biden’s messages. I therefore suspect that many people will migrate to servers where they can follow him.
I’m not saying certain servers are wrong for de-federating Threads. But just because a server enacts a policy doesn’t mean that end users agree with it. Both figuratively and literally, people have a right to vote in the matter.
If they haven’t already, they will vote with their feet.
@firepoet@atomicpoet In theory, people should just pick and choose what they subscribe to like with #RSS.
But the movement to block #Threads from shared #fediverse servers is as if people were agitating for Feedly or Google Reader (RIP) to block certain feeds or sites for everyone.
Can #podcasting be made to work with #ActivityPub as well as #RSS? Then podcatchers could work like a #Mastodon client, allowing us to interact directly via comments, favorites and spreading around the best episodes via boosts. #podcasts
update: it exists but no podcatcher fully supports it yet.
omg. rubs eyes. i finally finished setting up an RSS reader!
it is so exciting to see all these familiar names in my feed, and feel like i can be free of the algorithm when it comes to enjoying writing from real humans. it is looking a little overwhelming right now, though, with the very long list i've created, and all the unread badges on each item. we'll see how this goes — i don't want this to become another burden like my email is :(
if you happen to have an RSS feed on your website/blog, thank you for setting that up and making it easy to read what you've written 😊
Dear #smallweb, don't do autoscroll for blogs posts. Use pages please. I DO want to get to the bottom of your page to grab that #RSS button. Or put it on top. K, thanks, bye. Love, a #blog reader. ~ via http://marisabel.nl/social ~