Rosting and email are my vision of the future. Rosting or “RSS direct posting” is publishing content directly to an RSS feed. You can just do that.

\ http://rubymayvalentine.net/rss.xml

You can even use escape sequences to do html inside of a “rost.”

The utopia I imagine is all of us with our feed readers of choice hosting our own rss feeds and rosting and emailing each other. Maybe some of us even use IRC or XMPP to communicate. The future can be realized.

Here’s my most recent “rost.” Only people who are subscribed to my rss feed (or read the plaintext xml file like some sort of freak) can view this. It’s not on my blog or anything you know.* You can post directly to rss. You can rost.

*sort of a bad example but this is a slightly modified version of my post that’s almost identical on cohost

Sort of like how “you can send someone a voicemail directly” this is a somewhat unexplored and not often mentioned detail about rss except it’s infinitely better than voicemail.

	<item>
			<title>Advertisement</title>
			<description>
				<![CDATA[
				<p><i>Template engine? Static site generator? JavaScript?</i> </p>

<p>Not on rubymayvalentine.net. We only offer organic, hand-coded, homegrown, css, xml, and html.</p> ]]>
			</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 10 Sep 2024 19:12:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<link>https://rubymayvalentine.net</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">rost#26</guid>
		</item>```

the news came, unexpected
doors shut in less than a month
and lights leaving with the year
we thought we had more time, but that was never our decision

I hate how sad I am. The announcement alone has already changed the culture of this place so much and I miss how it was so much and it's been 2 days. I think I'm gonna get an eggbug sticker.

I think I'm gonna miss eggbug the most. I wish I got the plushie when I had the chance.

I really don't post much here because I'm way too SNS-poisoned to be comfortable here, but I'd swing by and read through some posts once in a while, and I appreciated it.

And I'm not just saying it because I'm friends with Colin or something.

Honestly, don't stop doing what you did here when you gotta find a new home.

There's a game to every social network service and every social circle, it's just that this one was built on a fundamentally less toxic one, and perhaps what we gained here can be something that serves to inform and guide us into the future.

Just don't forget who you were here and who you can continue to be when you move on.