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Evgeny Morozov has pointed out that using ai through chat interfaces is based on an individualised and privatised model, which (heavily paraphrased) is inherently anti-social. With an extra layer now of people making small personalised tools, do bigger things still need teams of people who know what they’re doing? FWIW I’d like to see more sharing of vibe coded tools instead of everyone making their own more less the same ones. Mine are here: https://pauladams.neocities.org/
On Reddit ending RSS feeds, this stuff about “large-scale scraping and automated abuse” is an excuse, right? Presumably they just want to keep all their (or their users) content for their AI licensing deals?
Cool, thanks
RSS has a business problem, not a technical one
"I think the logical model is a reselling portal. It negotiates contracts with publishers and obtains full feeds."
https://twowavesandadot.blog/rss-has-a-business-problem-not-a-technical-one.html
I've updated my feedland page with 13 aggregator and firehose feeds from Bear Blog, Pinboard, Scour, Hacker News and others.
A good way to use these is to put them all in one folder in your reader and filter for keywords based on your interests.
Full list of feeds and link on my blog:
If it helps, I saw this on https://rsc.rmdes.be/users/rss.xml
Link penalties on social media platforms
Although I’ve known for a while that social platforms make posts with links in them less visible, I didn’t know until recently just how much they did it. So, here’s a run down of how much different platforms penalise links and how you can work with it.
(Although the real answer is of course to use platforms that don’t penalise links, sometimes you have to go where people are)
https://paul.jottit.org/link-penalties-on-social-media-platforms
not even counting anymore
Kill the algorithm in your head: Let's set up RSS readers and get news we actually want in 2026
https://scour.ing/redirect/https://www.pcgamer.com/software/kill-the-algorithm-in-your-head-lets-set-up-rss-readers-and-get-news-we-actually-want-in-2026?utm_source=rss
// #p-mas #p-bs
What is the most frustrating thing about RSS?
https://www.reddit.com/r/rss/s/uXhg2u6noX
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aaaand again
an ode to rss feeds
https://raccoongirltalkstotheworld.bearblog.dev/an-ode-to-rss-feeds/
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trying again
RSS May Be The Best Invention Ever
https://mtwb.blog/posts/2025/rss-may-be-the-best-invention-ever/
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test post, trying something out
What Does Bill Ackman Want With Universal Music Group?
https://jaimebrooks.substack.com/p/what-does-bill-ackman-want-with-universal
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Hello!
Another test post. Including this to make it more interesting:
How Time and others are rebuilding parts of the web for AI agents
https://digiday.com/media/how-time-and-others-are-rebuilding-parts-of-the-web-for-ai-agents/
“Treat the agent as an operator of primitives you understand and could fall back to, not as a replacement for understanding them. Keep the formats open and the exit cheap”
Thoughtful post by Simon Carstensen
Can you be indie with an LLM?
https://simonbc.com/can-you-be-indie-with-an-llm
Is there more info on how something appears on the explore timeline?
I subscribed to a feed-of-feeds that i put together from a folder on inoreader. It's a feed of my posts on mastodon, lemmy, etc.
I expected it to only appear on my Following timeline, but a couple of posts appeared on the explore timeline.
Should users consider anything added to Following to be public? Or can we know more about what will stay on our private Following timeline and what appears on Explore?
I'm not complaining, as I don't know if something has gone wrong exactly and this isn't a security or privacy issue, it would just be good to know what to expect.
Agree that there's still useful stuff on the big social platforms but there has to be a way of getting it and filtering it. Not a perfect solution but nitter, rss bridge, bye doom and fetch rss can be used to get feeds from social accounts, which you can also filter for keywords in your feed reader
I wrote a long-ish reply on Reddit about coding with AI. Not all AI is slop. Vibe coders should be honest with themselves and others.
Oh nice, I didn't relalise this would come out here :)
ATOM vs RSS - Genuine question for anyone that sees this:
Is one of them better or does it depend on what you’re using it for?
Hello!
Highlighting Dave Winer's comment on the issue of federating rss.chat servers,
Yes, use OPML, create a list of servers. That's what software that wants to work with federations will require as input.
When i reply to a post on a subscribed feed on my personal tab like this, who sees the reply?
I’ve updated my feedland account with feeds about rss
Scour
Lemmy
Reddit
Hacker news
When I post on here should it appear on
https://demo.rss.chat/
?
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Test post from
https://rsc.rmdes.be/