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Aral Balkan
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I mainly post on my blog at https://ar.al  (RSS: https://ar.al/index.xml ) and interact on my Mastodon https://mastodon.ar.al . Please follow me there.

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    Aral Balkan‏ @aral Jun 29

    Reclaiming RSS “Before Twitter, before algorithmic timelines filtered our reality for us, before surveillance capitalism, there was RSS … As we move away from the centralised web to the peer web, it’s time to rediscover, re-embrace, and reclaim RSS.” https://ar.al/2018/06/29/reclaiming-rss/ …pic.twitter.com/YMN0aPAowd

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      2. フィリップ‏ @HelloFillip Jun 29
        Replying to @aral

        Add some Atom & ActivityPub and let the good times roll.

        1 reply 3 retweets 11 likes
      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral Jun 29
        Replying to @HelloFillip

        Also see, https://datproject.org  ;)

        1 reply 2 retweets 12 likes
      4. フィリップ‏ @HelloFillip Jun 29
        Replying to @aral

        I have dat sites, but not won over by the tech yet. Concept is great, and I’ll keep dat sites as an experiment. Hopefully the stack will catch up.

        1 reply 2 retweets 3 likes
      5. Aral Balkan‏ @aral Jun 29
        Replying to @HelloFillip

        Life’s a series of experiments ;) Here’s to building the stack we want.

        1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
      6. ChristinaBowen 🌍 📚‏ @csageland Jun 30
        Replying to @aral

        The project also has amazing people: arguably the first and most influential part of the stack. Also this is really cool https://dat-tiddlywiki.glitch.me/ 

        0 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
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      2. J.R. King  👓‏ @jrkingesq Jun 30
        Replying to @aral @mtsw

        I'm convinced that an open source social media platform that is also a micro-blogging site and RSS reader would do well.

        2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral Jul 1
        Replying to @jrkingesq @mtsw

        Have you had a chance to look at Mastodon? (https://joinmastodon.org ) :)

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      4. Pablo Bernardo‏ @iam_pbernardo Jul 1
        Replying to @aral @jrkingesq @mtsw

        Is that similar to GNUSocial?

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      5. Aral Balkan‏ @aral Jul 1
        Replying to @iam_pbernardo @jrkingesq @mtsw

        Yep. Although it uses ActivityPub (ActivityPub support afaik was being worked on for GNUSocial last I checked. Not sure what the current status is, no pun intended.) :)

        0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
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      2. Harold Jarche‏ @hjarche Jul 1
        Replying to @aral

        Harold Jarche Retweeted Aral Balkan

        “RSS was an essential part of Web 1.0 before surveillance capitalism (Web 2.0) took over.” @aralhttps://twitter.com/aral/status/1012676542651084800 …

        Harold Jarche added,

        Aral Balkan @aral
        Reclaiming RSS “Before Twitter, before algorithmic timelines filtered our reality for us, before surveillance capitalism, there was RSS … As we move away from the centralised web to the peer web, it’s time to rediscover, re-embrace, and reclaim RSS.” https://ar.al/2018/06/29/reclaiming-rss/ … pic.twitter.com/YMN0aPAowd
        2 replies 4 retweets 5 likes
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      1. Nicolas Granatino‏ @ngranati Jun 29
        Replying to @aral

        That's what we help you do @gentlereader and @cronycle Algorithmic is neither good or bad though. AI which optimises for ad revenues is though.... But AI can optimise for relevance as well @rightrelevance

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      1. Barry Richards‏ @barry_richards Jun 29
        Replying to @aral

        I really miss RSS, on so many sites it’s really hard to find the feed (if it even exists). It was the dwindling of RSS that lead to me signing up for Twitter to stay up-to-date with design & tech developments.

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      1. Tadeusz Szewczyk (Tad Chef)‏ @onreact_com Jun 29
        Replying to @aral

        Just call it feeds or subscriptions though. Nobody ever understood the meaning of the cryptic acronym anyway.

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      1. Paulo Fierro‏ @plo Jul 1
        Replying to @aral

        RSS also silently powers podcasting via its simple enclosure tag 🙂

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      2. Rob Allen‏ @RobBluedreamer Jun 30
        Replying to @aral

        Didn't browsers used to flag the existence of an RSS feed in the address bar? Seems that was removed, we need to back.

        1 reply 2 retweets 11 likes
      3. Diogo Constantino‏ @DMConstantino Jul 1
        Replying to @RobBluedreamer @aral

        They still do.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      4. Rob Allen‏ @RobBluedreamer Jul 1
        Replying to @DMConstantino @aral

        Where? Can't see it present in any of the popular browsers - you can get extensions but it not native...?

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      5. Diogo Constantino‏ @DMConstantino Jul 1
        Replying to @RobBluedreamer @aral

        Firefox has it native.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      6. Rob Allen‏ @RobBluedreamer Jul 1
        Replying to @DMConstantino @aral

        not in FF61 where are you seeing it?

        2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      7. Diogo Constantino‏ @DMConstantino Jul 1
        Replying to @RobBluedreamer @aral

        I'm with patched version of 60 (by Ubuntu). Maybe it's not showing by default, I can't remember if added it when I intalled the OS. But if you go to the personalization it's there. The feature itself was never removed from that I'm absolutely sure.pic.twitter.com/eBzqc9F2ub

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      8. Rob Allen‏ @RobBluedreamer Jul 1
        Replying to @DMConstantino @aral

        yeh found it but as a toolbar customisation option, not very obvious and not “default”.

        0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      9. End of conversation

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