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1. Eric A. Meyer 3 min later

   @zachleat 🫗

   1. Zach Leatherman 11 min later

      @Meyerweb legacy isn’t just old software

2. ArneBab 9 min later

   @zachleat I still have an #RSS feed — does that count? ☺

   https://www.draketo.de/rss-feed.xml

   And RSS feeds for those sub-pages that change regularly:
   https://www.draketo.de/#updated

   And #elfeed is one of the most efficient ways to stay up to date:
   https://nullprogram.com/blog/2013/09/04/

   1. Zach Leatherman 12 min later

      @ArneBab absolutely 🏆

3. John Gordon 34 min later

   @zachleat Predeceased by Google Reader Social, one of the best social networks ever.

4. Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ 43 min later

   @zachleat can I cheekily note that Vivaldi for desktop includes a feed reader (and offline mail client) out of the box? https://vivaldi.com/features/feed-reader/ No? OK, sorry then. xxx

   1. Zach Leatherman 48 min later

      @brucelawson yes yes you can—thank you

      1. Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ 51 min later

         @zachleat thanks, Zachford. I (we) love some algorithmless RSS.

5. vampirdaddy 1 hr later

   @zachleat
   I still/again use rss2email - implicit read/keep sync across all (imap) mail clients. Especially if you use mailserver-side filters/sorters (sieve) to sort all news into a subfolder.

   Btw that’s the software Aaron Swartz originally programmed - and still is the fastest/easiest in daily reading for me.

6. Omar Shehata 1 hr later

   @zachleat @rosano got me hooked on RSS and now I can't stop talking about it. Especially the idea that anyone can build on top of it. I can combine various feeds into one page or make my own reading list or shuffle it into Obsidian or whatever!

   https://utopia.rosano.ca/introducing-osfeedbox/

   1. Zach Leatherman 2 hr later

      @omarshehata @rosano yes!!

7. Ryan Rampersad 1 hr later

   @zachleat When the Internet lost Reader, it changed the Internet forever

8. Jessamyn 2 hr later

   @zachleat Just sent someone my RSS feed last night. I maintain a reading list on my own website and it's got an RSS feed. A few days out of date but that's just because I x-post beforehand on Mastodon

   https://jessamyn.info/index.rss

   1. Zach Leatherman 2 hr later

      @jessamyn what’s a few days delay amongst friends!

9. iamdtms 2 hr later

   @zachleat Real story, not ended with alternates: how about news reader's nowadays? Multiple target's? Google News for political, local and world news. Feedly RSS desktop and device for specific consumption. Google Discovery on device for fresh personal news harvest. What is today's best practice for knowing what interesting but leave behind the BS?☝️

10. Jonathan Yu 2 hr later

    @zachleat I wish that I could still leave virtual flowers at the Google graveyard site 💐

11. Passim 2 hr later

    @zachleat @adactio Hooray for NetNewsWire! Hoping to move to FreshRSS or similar from Feedly soon.

12. Usama Khan ❇️ 2 hr later

    @zachleat any good RSS readers for Linux and Android

    1. Zach Leatherman 2 hr later

       @usamainsights I use https://feedbin.com/ which uses the web and does not require a specific operating system

       1. Usama Khan ❇️ 3 hr later

          @zachleat thanks, it would be good if it was local.

          1. Zach Leatherman 3 hr later

             @usamainsights oh wow you’re right—it does need offline support!

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14. Eric 3 hr later

    @zachleat apropos, it's also Enshittification Day https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/110640317152562997

    1. Zach Leatherman 4 hr later

       @eric en–shittification
       em—shittification

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       2. Brian Baldock 🇨🇦 9 hr later

          @zachleat @eric what no ch-ittification?

       3. EJ Mason 16 hr later

          @zachleat @eric

          this just made me whisper “go to hell” very affectionately, thank you

          1. Zach Leatherman 1 day later

             @codeability @eric I accept this toot in the spirit in which it was given

15. Téotime Pacreau 4 hr later

    @zachleat https://www.teotimepacreau.fr/feed/feed.xml

16. EvilKiru 🇮🇸 he/him 7 hr later

    @zachleat Google Reader was simultaneously a boon and a bane. Boon: You were no longer limited to reading your feed on the one computer that your reader software was installed on. Bane: Fuck you if one of the RSS feeds you followed didn't observer the insane restrictions that Google Reader arbitrarily and absurdly imposed on all RSS feeds, in direct violation of the RSS standard!

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18. dilbert 1 8 hr later

    @zachleat there were two good reimplementations of it, newsblur and the good reader.
19. Lance Haig 15 hr later

    @zachleat
    My small contribution

    https://haigmail.com/index.xml

20. Elena ``of Valhalla'' 15 hr later

    @zachleat and today people are celebrating the (earlier, 2010) birth of friendica, a fediverse platform that also supports adding rss feeds as contacts

    (I don't use that feature, rss2email is a better fit for my own lifeflow, but it's nice that the option exists)

21. Adam DJ Brett 1 day later

    @zachleat I hear #11ty has some great DIY rss starters.

    1. Zach Leatherman 1 day later

       @adjb I’ve heard of #11ty, is it good?