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Re: Using RSS to replace social media

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Post by piggybox »

woodruffw wrote: post #73
jsilence wrote: post #70

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Yeah we know. Does not keep me from cloning his st config. But yes, I liked watching his stuff much more when he was going thru his Linux/Dektop setup or advocating useful but little known command line tools. Not unlike Scott Adams. I find Dilbert funny. Am I supposed not to laugh because his political views do not align with mine (at all)?

You can do whatever you please! Not everybody knows, because he's a relative nobody who occasionally gets laundered through HN. My only role in this entire thing is making sure that the bits that I know are available for consideration.

Thanks! I, for one, have never heard of this person.

Re: Using RSS to replace social media

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Post by dharmaturtle »

sys_64738 wrote: post #57
throw0101a wrote: post #40

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> Twitter is especially good for RSS as you can see almost all 140 chars in a single line and see all the recents tweets for the twitter account. Twitter used to have RSS (Atom?) until March 2013.

The RSS service I use has a Twitter gateway which does translation. It works really nice.

What RSS service you're using? I'm in the market.

Re: Using RSS to replace social media

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Post by riffic »

streamofdigits wrote: post #14

Replacing existing approaches to social media needs a two way protocol like activitypub https://activitypub.rocks/ RSS plays well but is not sufficient

to add on top of this, we *really* need players like media, institutions, and government to start adopting ActivityPub and to have those groups start spinning up sites which pump out communication onto this system.

This could look like a WordPress blog with the ActivityPub plugin installed.

It could also look like the incumbent social media services white-labeling their websites so orgs can be social from their own domains.

Groups I'm talking about are your newspapers, cable news channels, fire departments, colleges, heads of state, et cetera.

Re: Using RSS to replace social media

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Post by riffic »

voltagex_ wrote: post #19
smitty1e wrote: post #11

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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.

by definition a dog-whistle. something which can be innocently handwaved away by those not attuned, but sends a clear signal to those capable of reception.

Re: Using RSS to replace social media

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Post by sys_64738 »

dharmaturtle wrote: post #92
sys_64738 wrote: post #57

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The RSS service I use has a Twitter gateway which does translation. It works really nice.

What RSS service you're using? I'm in the market.

INO Reader - think Google Reader. Good deals around Thgiv.

Re: Using RSS to replace social media

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Post by the_third_wave »

Ambolia wrote: post #20
the_third_wave wrote: post #15

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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.

Maybe you could but there is something to be said for running your own instance of whatever platform you use to spread your thoughts. It is close to the last word in avoiding censorship as long as the network operators remain (or become in the case of AWS and probably some others) neutral. As to whether this is scalable... remains to be seen but for "normal" people with a few thousand "followers" at best it should work fine even on a single board computer like a Raspberry Pi. That same SBC could host your mail - using a smart host (which could be run as a service) to push mail to the world so as to avoid an avalanche of spam. While it is doing its thing anyway you may as well add whatever web-related thing you might want to put out for the world to see, or maybe not for the world but at least for family and friends. It can host media services, a VPN service, etc. In short, it can be a stepping stone towards a decentralised net - which I deem to be a good thing.

Re: Using RSS to replace social media

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Post by crtasm »

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…

Newpipe is fantastic.

> there is no autoplay.

There is now, it got turned on when I installed a recent update. The option is: settings->video and audio->auto-queue next stream.

Re: Using RSS to replace social media

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Post by mycoborea »

mkr-hn wrote: post #43
the_third_wave wrote: post #10

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I read the page and did not find anything worth labelling " disgusting alt-right vocabulary ". Either put up or shut up with the " disgusting alt-right vocabulary " nonsense. This type of accusation without examples and explanations just why it is " disgusting " and " alt-right " only serves to poison the well from which ideas are drawn, it serves no good purpose. So, show us some examples of that disgusting vocabula…

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.

Re: Using RSS to replace social media

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Post by olah_1 »

woodruffw wrote: post #87
olah_1 wrote: post #86

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There is no critique here other than “reported for wrong think”.

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.

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