important lesson i want to take from this place into anywhere else i go to now is that you curate the feed, brother

twitter really conditioned me into thinking that i needed to follow everyone because we met irl or we know each other through a mutual friend or whatever and like... i don't, actually. i don't need to do that. we can know each other irl and be good friends and i can just not follow you on some sites because i just want to have a certain browsing experience that you don't align with. and that's ok, it's nothing personal. not having a "follows you" badge on here is one of the most underrated lifesavers of the social media experience, man.

BIG MOOD

a better website is possible. a better website is necessary

I miss the RSS blogosphere. That's what I want to return to next. Just a simple blog with an RSS feed and I stick other RSS feeds into my RSS reader. Oh well.

For the love of glob please set up a website with an RSS feed

someone please write a guide on the easiest way to maintain a super barebones RSS feed

I want all of the artists I care about to have an RSS feed

please, fucking please

You want "decentralized" internet? You want things to not rely on one rich asshole ruining things for everyone?

RSS feeds. It's fucking RSS feeds. RSS readers still exist, you can find one you like. There's tons of them. Yes, setting up a website, even a very basic one, is a big technical hurdle. I'm sorry, take it up with the rich people. If you're on cohost you have friends that are willing to help. I'm not that friend, I've avoided making a website for eons. But someone will help.

All RSS feeds are is a structured way of going "hey here's all of the posts on this web site". So instead of going to each website, a program can just load all that data in at once. It's really fucking simple.

This is the last thing I'm going to yell about on this website. We need RSS feeds.

and yes most people are not going to post hog on their own website and that sucks, I don't have a solution for general hogposting.