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Taylor LorenzPost Twitter I find myself visiting the homepages of websites more and it’s something I really like now as part of my morning routine. I constantly find stories I probably would have never seen on social
Peter Merholz@taylorlorenz rewild that attention! (https://forge.medium.com/9-ways-to-rewild-your-attention-d7c9334b6b90, h/t @clive)
Clive Thompson
Thibaut Thomas@taylorlorenz I had to get back to RSS feeds (and I feel my media diet is better for it). Long live the Guardian’s custom RSS.
kfet@taylorlorenz rss readers are really underrated
Dominik Janiec@kfet @taylorlorenz especially, when accounts and tags on Mastodon are RSS feeds - add .rss to the end of theirs URL
thus, one does not need to join any Mastodon server to just consume content here 😉
Jonathan Hung@dominjaniec @kfet @taylorlorenz new around here and appreciate this tip; feeling quite overwhelmed at the moment!
Gaute ⚡ Holmin@taylorlorenz
I've never understood how people can base their news consumption solely on what is posted on social media.
Feedly ❤️
The Real OgBallazTwitter isn't a reliable news source #twitter
Stefan@taylorlorenz I've been doing the same! Email newsletters still don't really work for me.
LAUREN@taylorlorenz You will be a better person and journalistic steward because of this.
Kim Crawley (she/her) 😷🍉That was the original vision for the WWW!
StevenSavage (he/him)@taylorlorenz I also use RSS even more.
Carl Heath@taylorlorenz Agree! And I have also started to blog again, all be it not regularly yet. But very fun!
Matt Young@taylorlorenz The trouble with algorithms is that they build a caricature of your interests and then try to stuff you inside them (Sam Kriss said something like that). The newspaper or the homepage which has "things of interest" instead of "things of interest to you (we think)" has a lot of incentives for the curious.
Keith (karmajunkie)@taylorlorenz Episode IV: The RSS Strikes Back…
jxn@taylorlorenz it's just like going back to the year 2000. Level up to 2005 by helping bring back RSS and feed readers. I guess that was the apex of the internet.
UrbanGR@jxn @taylorlorenz Have used a [local] Feed Reader every day, since ~2014; it's great! And I can always go back to articles. #RSS
Kevin Sliech@taylorlorenz same, and am reminded how the SF chronicle absolutely does not want me to stay logged in 🙃
serklarvel@taylorlorenz the same has happened to me. Also, using Mastodon I became much more aware of tracking activities of Big Tech and started using Firefox to avoid it.
@taylorlorenz Return to the old internet!
poopositive@taylorlorenz turns out there is more to the internet than algorithmic feeds! 🍒💛
Eric Budd@taylorlorenz this is giving me very early 2000's vibes when I would check the same 20 web sites several times a day
Raymond Johnson@raymondjohnson @taylorlorenz lol. sameeee
Nyans@taylorlorenz for those who are loving #RSS feeds (again), know that you can see/subscribe to the posts of a Mastodon account or a specific hashtag by adding .rss to it. For example: https://mastodon.nl/tags/rss.rss and https://mastodon.social/@taylorlorenz.rss
The cool thing about the hashtags is that you can follow them from any instance/community. So if you are on a small one, just follow a big one.
Ericka Simone@taylorlorenz websites are definitely back.
Elias Fox@taylorlorenz reject modernity; embrace tradition
Jake Harbor@taylorlorenz While I agree somewhat with you, I do miss the somewhat instant feedback I could get on certain stories, ESPECIALLY local ones (ie, if there was a fire near me, it was a good way to get updates on it not just from the FD, but from others on the ground near it).
It's why I wish more people would transition to here (or really, any other not-for-profit site).
Radiohead addict'd 
@taylorlorenz! I play more chess 😉
A shame tho, Twitter had a good community
A shame tho, Twitter had a good community
Terminhell@taylorlorenz Does anyone remember stumbleupon? It's was such a cool thing back in the mid 2000's. Too bad it's mostly useless now, as most everything is either a blog site, or just redirects to a social media platform.
Mxhrad... also you're encountering less bigots and trolls
Marcus "MajorLinux" Summers@taylorlorenz Imagine if you used an RSS feed...lol
tutormentor1I maintain a list with links to #Chicago youth #tutor #mentor programs at https://tutormentorexchange.net/chicago-area-program-links and hope many people follow your example and visit their websites to see what they do, and how they can help.
For technologists and writers that could mean helping #NPO orgs tell their stories more effectively on their websites.
ilyess@taylorlorenz You could also try subscribing to their RSS feeds if you haven’t already.
ErgonWolf@taylorlorenz If only more sites were using RSS and there were easy clients so you could subscribe and get new content delivered in one place rather than having to refresh tabs all the time.
RSS is a past and a future we should al be dreaming of.
Heidi Li Feldman@taylorlorenz @grammargirl I now use Inoreader (Inoreader.com), an rss aggregator, to keep track of and get exposed to various websites and news topics.
John [He, Him, His] 🌈👨🏼🔬🧬🧫🧪💻@taylorlorenz the same is beginning to happen with Amazon. So much of the top results are just gamified garbage that I go to individual manufacturers for anything that needs to be quality.
Airrick Dunfield@taylorlorenz I've recently started using an RSS reader again. The internet is in a weird place 🤣
Boolean Boss 🧹 (Ari)@taylorlorenz I've been doing that a lot more too. it's kind of fun
Charles22a203@taylorlorenz I wish banner exchanges were still a thing.
Auntie Denier@taylorlorenz I browse my media sub apps instead: The Atlantic, WaPo, Daily Beast, Wonkette and HuffPo. Then visit my Substack and Patreon folks. Then come here. In some combo/order. :)
Daniel Prindii@taylorlorenz I started using @omnivore for rss feeds and newsletters. I'm reading more newsletter that before.
haricots introvert@taylorlorenz hey look at you doing Deranged DMs! I'd ask you if Gabi Belle is as nice in person as she is on camera, but you did it via Zoom, so...
Graham@taylorlorenz I never did let my rss feeds disappear and turn to them every now and then ... currently using netvibes.com (my brain my algorithm)
John🥛@taylorlorenz Flipboard is awesome
Jan K.@taylorlorenz True that. When my salary raise is due end of the year, I'll have 3 newspapers, that I support via subscription.
Ernie Smith@taylorlorenz Taylor, I know you have made it when you have your own scam bots in your replies on Mastodon
Deb has moved! (see profile) 🇨🇦@taylorlorenz like, news-y websites?
Lon Seidman / Lon.TV ☑️@taylorlorenz Somebody should tell her about RSS readers! :)
Khleedril@taylorlorenz
Congratulations, you've managed to escape the asylum and are back in the real world.
Congratulations, you've managed to escape the asylum and are back in the real world.