JA WestenbergMay 28, 2025
RSS never tracked you.
Email never throttled you.
Blogs never begged for dopamine.
The old web wasn’t perfect.
But it was yours.
Show threadAndres Jalinton

@Daojoan
I still use RSS daily.
Email is my primary work communication medium.
I still host blogs and microbloging software.

Some would say I live in the past, but I'm enjoying myself.

May 28, 2025 at 8:53pmWeb
Show threadJA WestenbergMay 28, 2025
@Andres they can have my RSS reader when they pry it from my cold dead hands
Show threadEndlessMasonMay 28, 2025

@Daojoan
... Or more likely when i forget to pay the invoice for my vps

@Andres

Show threadTanegaMay 29, 2025
@Daojoan @Andres technofascists: Hold my beer
Show threadAbieMay 28, 2025
@Andres @Daojoan +1 (all but the hosting)
I even follow a few Bluesky accounts via RSS :p
Show threadRaJan 25
@temptoetiam @Andres @Daojoan Thanks, i'd never thought of doing that; Schema/syntax for rssing blusky accounts:
Eg.
https://bsky.app/profile/'NAME'.bsky.social/rss
Show threadTim ChaseSep 15, 2025

@Andres

Email has its flaws, but it's the lingu-franca of communications.

Pretty much the first thing I do in any _other_ communication platform is enable email notifications. SalesForce, Trello, Jira, GitHub, Teams, Chatter, Yammer, Slack, or whatever the latest $DAYJOB hawtness is for improving team communication? Send it all to email. If it doesn't show up in my email inbox, it might as well not exist.

Tangentially, I use rss2email, so even my RSS feeds show up in my email 😉

@Daojoan