Mastodawn

*sigh*

No matter how good the blogpost or article itself might *actually* be, if I spot, or suspect, that it has a slop header image, I probably won't read it.

Sure, perhaps I am missing out, but that is a boundary for me.

I appreciate that not everyone has the time, skill, or spoons to create or search for a CC-licensed image. My approach is just not to use a header image, which is a simple and free approach.

Herman Roozen 5d ago

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Neil Brown

For the last 25 years, I've relied on RSS for a lot of blogs that I read regularly.

If some of those have adopted slop images, I won't necessarily know, as I don't see their images.

And, if your blog does not have (full text, please) RSS, please do consider adding it! It is the future.

And the past.

@neil one of things I liked most when I created my site with Hugo, is that there was an rss feed by default. It was a big thing I wanted, regardless of if anybody reads my stuff.

@dazfuller Yes!

@neil you got me thinking about my setup overnight. I’ve now implemented a custom feed template so the entire post is in there, not just the summary

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adingbatponder

👾5d ago

@neil How can I have the same rss alert tool on all my devices? And one that stops showing ones I have read and/or clicked?

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Neil Brown 5d ago

@adingbatponder It sounds like you might benefit from using a feed aggregator, like @freshrss.

That downloads your chosen feeds, and you subscribe to it, which keeps things in sync.

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Oliv'4d ago

@adingbatponder @neil I am using https://github.com/rss2email/rss2email, perfect solution for me

GitHub - rss2email/rss2email: Forward RSS feeds to your email address, community maintained

Forward RSS feeds to your email address, community maintained - rss2email/rss2email

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Cy 5d ago

My blog does not have RSS because uh... it's just the Fediverse. This is the Fediverse. Hi welcome to my blog. You follow it, and then unlike RSS, it uses a push protocol to send you(r instance) updates.