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Reclaiming RSS
“Before Twitter, before algorithmic timelines filtered our reality for us, before surveillance capitalism, there was RSS: Really Simple Syndication … As we move away from the centralised web to the peer web, it’s time to rediscover, re-embrace, and reclaim RSS.”
@aral RSS is only relevant to blogs, and blogs aren't the Web. Blogs *ruined* the Web.
@starbreaker @aral
I don't like the second one. The issue in the headline isn't really explored, and instead the text is about a second Eternal September and is upset that somebody let the riff-raff in.
The first one I like better. At least it has a point, that hand-crafted sites mean that more of the soul leaks into the page. Not that it has become too easy for the plebs to publish, but that even the craftsmen aren't spending as much time on their texts, because the tempo is different.
The long texts are now in places like Wikipedia, with often high quality information, but with the soul edited away as imperfections.
It wasn't the blogs. It was centralization, corporatization (including large non-profits) and link aggregation with the associated clickbait.
Blogs to a large degree are still thoughtful long-form material, at least the posts I read. What's ruining the internet is low-effort shitposting. So I guess it was the microblogs. Oops, our bad.
I don't like the second one. The issue in the headline isn't really explored, and instead the text is about a second Eternal September and is upset that somebody let the riff-raff in.
The first one I like better. At least it has a point, that hand-crafted sites mean that more of the soul leaks into the page. Not that it has become too easy for the plebs to publish, but that even the craftsmen aren't spending as much time on their texts, because the tempo is different.
The long texts are now in places like Wikipedia, with often high quality information, but with the soul edited away as imperfections.
It wasn't the blogs. It was centralization, corporatization (including large non-profits) and link aggregation with the associated clickbait.
Blogs to a large degree are still thoughtful long-form material, at least the posts I read. What's ruining the internet is low-effort shitposting. So I guess it was the microblogs. Oops, our bad.
@starbreaker @aral
I'm actually hoping that forms like #plume interacting with the Fediverse will bring back more long-form and commentary. I like the long things I write here the best, and I only write them here because (hey, I'm low effort too) I don't want to bother setting up a place to put them.
I quite like the idea of a single AP backend (Pleroma or whatever) supporting several front-ends, especially if that would involve metadata about the preferred front-end for viewing a particular post.
Now people have argued above, Aral for starters, that feeds should be full text and none of that luring people back to intended sites business, but I actually think in the context I just described that the way PeerTube does it is a pretty good idea. The AP version is a summary that fits the microblog feed, and it has a link to the full content with its intended layout. You could still have a fat Atom feed too, for non-microbloggy consumers.
I'm looking forward to high-effort writing, as in the creative process, distributed via low-effort posting, as in the distributing of the pieces.
I'm actually hoping that forms like #plume interacting with the Fediverse will bring back more long-form and commentary. I like the long things I write here the best, and I only write them here because (hey, I'm low effort too) I don't want to bother setting up a place to put them.
I quite like the idea of a single AP backend (Pleroma or whatever) supporting several front-ends, especially if that would involve metadata about the preferred front-end for viewing a particular post.
Now people have argued above, Aral for starters, that feeds should be full text and none of that luring people back to intended sites business, but I actually think in the context I just described that the way PeerTube does it is a pretty good idea. The AP version is a summary that fits the microblog feed, and it has a link to the full content with its intended layout. You could still have a fat Atom feed too, for non-microbloggy consumers.
I'm looking forward to high-effort writing, as in the creative process, distributed via low-effort posting, as in the distributing of the pieces.
@starbreaker @aral I have been wondering why blikis* never quite took off (but many Hugo sites are actually along those lines, with both chronological and non-chronological content, and a specific feed for the chrono content), and would love to see one that offered high customizability for the canonical view, and also an AP backend where you could just run a Plero or Masto FE for handling the comments, but also showing comments below the article, possibly simply with an iframe for the AP frontend (which would have to be adapted to that scenario).
* blog + wiki, your own personal wiki where you categorize your thought and iterate on articles across timespans of years, but also with wiki that relates the process of writing the wiki, and/or just random time-sensitive commentary, but preferably something that makes it make sense to host the blog and wiki in the same place.
* blog + wiki, your own personal wiki where you categorize your thought and iterate on articles across timespans of years, but also with wiki that relates the process of writing the wiki, and/or just random time-sensitive commentary, but preferably something that makes it make sense to host the blog and wiki in the same place.
@notclacke @starbreaker @aral blog+wiki… This is exactly what I want.
@nonlinear @aral @starbreaker I wrote http://wiki.c2.com/?MultiverseBliki 12 years ago. I did *not* "whip up an implementation" later that summer. :-D
http://wiki.c2.com/?BloggedWiki
Martin Fowler coined the word bliki, and still uses it