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 I keep seeing, again and again, that people with “audiences” and “reach” experience a lot of friction on Fedi and generally leave, while all the folks here who are looking to meet other folks to chat with absolutely love it. I don’t know if this is caused by technical or cultural factors, but I love and want to protect this aspect of the Fediverse. Still, I will never ever buy wireless headphones. https://degrowther.smol.pub/20210603_wireless  @mycorrhiza  @mycorrhiza I agree. I also actively dislike pairing/charging so I’m happy to have wired headphones and it doesn’t feel like I’m missing anything. Since we’re talking about RSS today, I want to chime in and say that it was definitely one of the great things about the 2.0-era web that have been hurt by Big Tech and social media walled gardens.
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 @mycorrhiza Working on my new personal blog I was thinking of telling people to subscribe to the RSS instead of following me on social media or me making a newsletter. And of course I was going to include a tutorial on how I suggest they do that (if they don't already know).  @mycorrhiza RSS is still great today. Wordpress has it enabled by default I think, and most WP users don't realise/disable it.
 @mycorrhiza RSS is great and I use it a lot. Friendica advertises it for each account on the profile page, so you can follow anyone on Friendica via RSS. Also, on Friendica you can add any RSS source as a "contact" and follow them. So that's awesome.
A thought which I haven’t fully worked out in my head yet is that a true “permacomputing” practice would come along with an acknowledgement that perfect, indefinite, preservation of all recorded information isn’t possible, and might not even be desirable? @mycorrhiza data needs to be cared for. Most articles online are outdated. It’s not clear to the user anymore what is good data or bad data. It feels like we do not need all data. 80% of saved data is never touched once after it. Sooo. To much data. Data that wants to be analyzed. To create more data…  @mycorrhiza I agree, you might find a papers in here that will help you work out where to draw the line between digital clutter and practical preservation. https://web.archive.org/web/20010625015518/http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/topics/19.html |
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Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that everything is perfect and nothing should change. But “it’s a shitty place to try to be an influencer” is among the loudest complaints (and it’s understandable why that might be), and that one should be ignored.