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RSS feeds are dead..right? Right?!?
For me, the internet as I had come to accept it broke irreparably in November, 2022. IYKYK. If not, here is a quick, boiled down recap. It's far from a perfect article, but the nuances are exhausting and out of the scope of this post. Interested parties can go pick a lot of scabs on Bluesky and Mastodon for the gory details.
That said, a lot of fractures existed well before that. Even before big-tech added the term "AI" to their collective spank bank, too many high-quality thought pieces were living in paywalled gardens, not to mention Google was already shitting all up in the comfy search-engine bed it had masterfully crafted since the late 90s. The promise of Web 3.0 turned into nothing more than NFT shills and offensively named crypto meme coins.
1% at a time, the internet had become a sort of Ship of Theseus, with all the parts being manufactured by Wish.com to make folks behind the curtains cabbage while simultaneously ruining.. well.. almost everything else involved.
Anywho, back to RSS feeds.. literally and as an informative device. Yet again, shit is broken...
I dilly-dicked around on my Android Play Store (yea, I'm too cheap to be an iPhonesman), and boy oh boy the search sucks there too. Most of the "top searches" are just sponsored article thieving aggregators that cram ads down your throat. And while it looks like a fun little game, walking across a bridge and shooting up an overwhelming opposing army with giants isn't what I searched for.
But I did find a couple of usable apps. One is an open source project named Feeder which is my personal favorite, but isn't as "casual internetter" friendly. A servicable alternative is Feedly, which offers less friction to build up a quick feed and is also available on iOS. I'm currently dabbling in both.
But what is a good "starter pack" to get ya going? Well, if you want to add Undistinguished.com now that I added an RSS feed I'd be honored! That said, my personal RSS feed includes a bunch of blogs of my Fediverse + Bluesky friends, a few old podcast buddies of mine, and the following techy news sources I trust and enjoy :
So while RSS may never party again like it's 1999 (or especially the mid 2000's), maybe we can pitch in to collectively get it a babysitter so it can keep partying through the 2020's...
2025-02-26 16:38:25
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Reading is fundamental, but not very fun
I'm late to the Nate Bargatze train, but the guy speaks to me at a level few ever have. This particular dialogue struck a chord deep in my soul :
