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Cory Doctorow Oct 16, 2024

No matter how hard we all wish it were otherwise, the sad fact is that there aren't really individual solutions to systemic problems. For example: your personal diligence in recycling will have no meaningful impact on the climate emergency.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/16/keep-it-really-simple-stupid/#read-receipts-are-you-kidding-me-seriously-fuck-that-noise

Pluralistic: You should be using an RSS reader (16 Oct 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Philip Kiff Oct 17, 2024

@pluralistic I'm a huge fan of RSS feeds for news and blogs and updates and alerts.

Don't forget that RSS also drives the entire core podcast distribution system.

If you are tired of Spotify or Apple or whomever enshittifying your podcast listening experience, you can subscribe to your favourite podcasts via RSS and download them locally using good ole desktop software.

#RSS #Podcasts #Enshittification

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Brian Oct 17, 2024

@pkiff @pluralistic email newsletters can be converted into RSS feeds using https://kill-the-newsletter.com/ It's even open sourced, so self-hosting is an option. #RSS #selfhosting

Kill the Newsletter!

Convert email newsletters into Atom feeds

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Lorraine Lee

@brian @pkiff @pluralistic Almost anything that can be serialized can be syndicated. It's good that we're forming a Federation. We should also form a Syndicate!