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erronis

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2. Yup. And Doctorow references this article by Molly White today.

Reply to LearnedHand (Reply #1)

Thu Jul 31, 2025, 04:19 PM

Jul 31

https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/31/unsatisfying-answers/#systemic-problems

Access the internet via RSS, and avoid all the algorithmic twiddling and surveillance that subjects you and yours to the depredations of the worst people on earth and their feral algorithms:

https://www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-rss/

I also use Inoreader. They keep adding on new features that I don't think/know that I need. Pretty soon Cory will be adding them to that "enshittification" category.

What bothers me about Inoreader (and others) is that they now also want to be your knowledge-base storage. We all know that data miners will be crawling over our bits and pieces.

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Curate your own newspaper with RSS -- Molly White - Citation Needed [View all] erronis Jul 31 OP

Cory Doctorow wrote a similar column a year or so ago LearnedHand Jul 31 #1

Yup. And Doctorow references this article by Molly White today. erronis Jul 31 #2

Dang you beat me to it! LearnedHand Jul 31 #4

Speaking of Doctorow! LearnedHand Jul 31 #3

I think we're in a self-referential loop. Just so it ain't too much "positive feedback". Blow my speakers. erronis Jul 31 #5

Yup just so LearnedHand Jul 31 #6

Same here. Pay for some. Overwhelmed by many. erronis Jul 31 #7