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Re: Using RSS to replace social media

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Post by mkr-hn »

mycoborea wrote: post #99
mkr-hn wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had a look at one of his Peertube feeds and I see that "soy[noun]" is something he uses often enough that it's probably not a typo. Example: "climate soyence," "OBS is major soyware." All with the soyboy meme guy overlaid. The "soy" thing is very much an alt-right dogwhistle, but those have a way of leaking out, so it's not always a red flag in isolation. I don't think such a charitable read is warranted in this ca…

It’s 2021. Like it or not, what you’re describing is common slang of internet youth culture.

Edgy antisemitic[0] language (like "unJewgled"), along with transphobia, homophobia, and racism, was normal when I was an internet youth, too. Then I grew up. I don't think he's an internet youth unless I seriously misjudged the photo on his website.

[0] https://www.adl.org/spelling

Re: Using RSS to replace social media

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Post by woodruffw »

olah_1 wrote: post #100
woodruffw wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You do realize that this is an Internet forum and that nobody has been reported, right? It’s incredible how we’ve descended from “someone pointed out that the author of TFA is a reactionary” to breathless analogies.

That guy knows exactly what he’s doing. He’s hoping that more of the hivemind jumps on Luke and tries to further punish him for his dissent from the global technocracy. Comply or face the consequences. No doubt that guy believes he’s a true individual lol.

I'm the same guy.

I'm not particularly old, but I am old enough to remember when it was possible for someone to be Unpopular On The Internet (for good or bad reasons) without it being a matter of grave political importance ("hivemind", "punish", "dissent").

In other words: you're overplaying your hand. If you like what Luke has to say, just say that. Behaving as if my dislike somehow amounts to oppression is childish.

Re: Using RSS to replace social media

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Post by kgwxd »

ravenstine wrote: post #50
debarshri wrote: post #46

Social media tells you what you should see based on some implicit determination. Sure sometimes you can discover new things that did not interest you. You can feel serendipitous. With RSS feed, you can actually gain control, you could actually say when you see items in the feed, alert me. With current social media, I am constantly discovering things, which gives me a short high of finding new things which lasts for f…

YouTube is far better if you can completely bypass their algorithm. Half the time I use YouTube through NewPipe, a FOSS Android alternative to the YouTube app. If you import your subscriptions, it shows you exactly all the videos from your subscribed channels in chronological order, not what it or YouTube thinks you want to see. The search is seemingly less algorithmically influenced and there is no autoplay. There's…

YouTube has rss.

Re: Using RSS to replace social media

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Post by smsm42 »

I hope RSS is finally old enough to be in fashion again, and people are starting to wake up to the fact that it's much superior to social media as a periodic content consumption venue. Social media is for posting cat pictures, wedding invitations and ancient jokes you heard for the first time yesterday. RSS is for creating curated periodic content streams. I've been using it since forever, and there's never been anything better. Well, maybe better format - RSS, Atom, whatever - but the idea is the same.

Hopefully people start to wake up to this finally? One can hope.

Re: Using RSS to replace social media

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Post by abnry »

woodruffw wrote: post #79
olah_1 wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you for reporting this, comrade.

Accusing your critics of being communists is a famously strong argument against being a reactionary, as all of modern history has shown!

"This guy's racist"

"Ok commie"

About right for the level of discourse.

This is the comments section of a post about RSS.

Re: Using RSS to replace social media

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Post by the_third_wave »

Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #84
Kaze404 wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There isn't much alt-right about that specifically, but it's clear wording that the alt-right has been using online for years. Talking about "SJWs" controlling the media and universities (and in the very same paragraph saying every "normal" person wants them "gone") and calling things you dislike "soy" are both plays in the years old alt-right playbook. If it walks like a duck and it quacks like a duck...

I have noticed that people commonly referred to as SJW often consider everyone who is not them to be alt-right. And yes, people sharing social justice values do obsess over it and it shows. Anecdotal example: random article brought to me by sliding android home screen to the left about new Foundation series spent more than half of the volume addressing the diversity of the cast and lamenting that on-screen sex was sh…

Ah, the blessings of the Google-free Android experience get proven once again by this counterexample of Google - or rather those working for Google who are in control these feeds - pushing their agenda onto unsuspecting (...?) victims.

May I suggest removing whatever stock distribution you have and replacing it with e.g. LineageOS, doing away with Google services - use microG [1] et al if you need something which depends on them - and dropping whatever "news aggregator" feed is offered by third parties? Use something like Nextcloud News [2] and add the feeds for a number of publications, both corporate as well as alternative, from all sides of the political spectrum. Compare how events are reported between them and form your own conclusions. Also give up on the hope of non-political culture reporting from corporate media, this seems to be one of the most heavily politicised areas with nearly all publications slanted towards the "left" side of the political spectrum.

[1] https://microg.org/

[2] https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/news

Re: Using RSS to replace social media

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Post by [deleted] »

smsm42 wrote: post #105

I hope RSS is finally old enough to be in fashion again, and people are starting to wake up to the fact that it's much superior to social media as a periodic content consumption venue. Social media is for posting cat pictures, wedding invitations and ancient jokes you heard for the first time yesterday. RSS is for creating curated periodic content streams. I've been using it since forever, and there's never been anyt…

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Re: Using RSS to replace social media

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Post by throwdecro »

skymt wrote: post #62
spockz wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why? We could have something federated where I add my response to a particular post/thread to my RSS feed. We then leave it up to the client to generate a proper tree representation of a discussion.

Mastodon uses an HTML microformat called h-feed for federation of user feeds. h-feed is based on hAtom, which is a microformat encoding of the Atom feed format. So your idea isn't all that far off from how the most popular federated social network system is designed (though there's more to it).

How much of this does an end-user need to think about? It seems very complicated.

Re: Using RSS to replace social media

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Post by edoceo »

Ambolia wrote: post #17

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.

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