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Re: Using RSS to replace social media

#11

Post by smitty1e »

Kaze404 wrote: post #8
Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you please explain what you mean by 'disgusting alt-right vocabulary'? After your comment I read his post twice and didn't find anything remotely political.

> Nitter.net is a Twitter proxy that mirrors Twitter, but without Javascript soyware and spying. With "soy" here being an old dogwhistle that refers to the "theory" that men are being feminized through the estrogen contained in meals that have soy as ingredient.

You are offering significant interpretation here. Note the adjaceny if 'o' and 'p' on the QWERTY.

'Soyware' is possibly a simple 'spyware' typo.

I know neither you nor The Famous Article's author, but your remark does not instill confidence in your judgement.

Re: Using RSS to replace social media

#12

Post by [deleted] »

Kaze404 wrote: post #8
Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you please explain what you mean by 'disgusting alt-right vocabulary'? After your comment I read his post twice and didn't find anything remotely political.

> Nitter.net is a Twitter proxy that mirrors Twitter, but without Javascript soyware and spying. With "soy" here being an old dogwhistle that refers to the "theory" that men are being feminized through the estrogen contained in meals that have soy as ingredient.

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Re: Using RSS to replace social media

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Post by est »

Twitter with an RSS feed is a waste of crawling traffic.

Suppose you follow 1k accounts, you have to subscribe 1k RSS. What a waste. Twitter's core functionality was based on how to aggregate all 1k updates into one feed.

Re: Using RSS to replace social media

#15

Post by the_third_wave »

hnaccy wrote: post #7

I use social media because it's social. A one way rss feed of content is the complete opposite.

You could import the RSS feed into a tool which allows you to comment to specific entries with your comments being served through RSS to interested others...

...upon which you'd have re-invented something resembling Mastodon, GNU Social or XMPP, give or take few bits.

Re: Using RSS to replace social media

#16

Post by jetstreamSam »

Kaze404 wrote: post #8
Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you please explain what you mean by 'disgusting alt-right vocabulary'? After your comment I read his post twice and didn't find anything remotely political.

> Nitter.net is a Twitter proxy that mirrors Twitter, but without Javascript soyware and spying. With "soy" here being an old dogwhistle that refers to the "theory" that men are being feminized through the estrogen contained in meals that have soy as ingredient.

>disgusting alt-right vocabulary

I am unconvinced that a "dogwhistle" that is a word play on spyware is truly disgusting and clearly alt-right. And with all due respect, why make a personal snarky attack because of 1 word?

Re: Using RSS to replace social media

#17

Post by Ambolia »

The difficult part is replacing the comment section and the network dynamics that make those sites grow.

I think all alternatives to youtube fail because of the dead comment sections. Not sure if there would be some way of creating distributed comment sections without them turning into pure spam and . Maybe chains of trust where you only see messages by users that have been "whitelisted" by someone you trust.

Re: Using RSS to replace social media

#18

Post by pcranaway »

smitty1e wrote: post #11
Kaze404 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Nitter.net is a Twitter proxy that mirrors Twitter, but without Javascript soyware and spying. With "soy" here being an old dogwhistle that refers to the "theory" that men are being feminized through the estrogen contained in meals that have soy as ingredient.

You are offering significant interpretation here. Note the adjaceny if 'o' and 'p' on the QWERTY. 'Soyware' is possibly a simple 'spyware' typo. I know neither you nor The Famous Article's author, but your remark does not instill confidence in your judgement.

not a typo https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Soydev

Re: Using RSS to replace social media

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Post by voltagex_ »

smitty1e wrote: post #11
Kaze404 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Nitter.net is a Twitter proxy that mirrors Twitter, but without Javascript soyware and spying. With "soy" here being an old dogwhistle that refers to the "theory" that men are being feminized through the estrogen contained in meals that have soy as ingredient.

You are offering significant interpretation here. Note the adjaceny if 'o' and 'p' on the QWERTY. 'Soyware' is possibly a simple 'spyware' typo. I know neither you nor The Famous Article's author, but your remark does not instill confidence in your judgement.

It's not a typo, the author also uses this on their YouTube channel.

Re: Using RSS to replace social media

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Post by Ambolia »

the_third_wave wrote: post #15
hnaccy wrote: post #7

I use social media because it's social. A one way rss feed of content is the complete opposite.

You could import the RSS feed into a tool which allows you to comment to specific entries with your comments being served through RSS to interested others... ...upon which you'd have re-invented something resembling Mastodon, GNU Social or XMPP, give or take few bits.

The bad thing about Mastodon is that you don't own your handle and your data unless you run your own instance.

Maybe it could have a crytographic addon where you own handle and data cryptographically and can move it to a new server as long as you keep a backup locally and the private key.

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