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It is also where the original RSS gemlog this is a - follow-up to was posted. For context, I wanted to cutback on a lot of - my web consumption, wasting time and just being mindless online. So I - looked to RSS to help centralize and solve this issue.</p> - </blockquote> - <h2>Recap</h2> - <p>So I am using <a rel="external noopener noreferrer" - target="_blank" - href="https://tt-rss.org">https://tt-rss.org/</a> as my RSS - aggregator. It’s a self-hosted RSS aggregator that, using profiles, - allows you to subscribe to multiple feeds and have them “synced” - between multiple devices (they’re not synced, you’re connecting to a - central server). I like this because I don’t ever have to worry about - dismissing, reading, or marking anything on my phone to have it still - present on my PC. And I don’t have to worry about feed subscriptions - or my phone pinging a bunch of feeds, or obviously, any third-party - hosting.</p> - <h2>How I’ve been using it</h2> - <p>So as always, please send me interesting RSS feeds! Or even your own! - I am trying to read more blogs, and if you have something you enjoy drop - me a DM or email! I’ll share what I am following throughout this section - <3</p> - <h3>Blogs</h3> - <p>Obviously, I am following blogs, one of the last holdouts of RSS. I - have a few that I follow, mostly other transfolk on Mastodon that I found - had their own blogs. Most non-trans folks I follow are using gemini and - still rely on the feed aggregators for that.</p> - <p>If you’re interested the two main ones I am reading right now are:</p> - <ol> - <li> - <a rel="external noopener noreferrer" - target="_blank" - href="https://erininthemorn.substack.com">Erin In The Morn - (substack)</a> - </li> - <li> - <a rel="external noopener noreferrer" - target="_blank" - href="https://www.selfawaresoup.com/">Selfaware Soup</a> - </li> - </ol> - <p>Which have been pretty insightful. Erin sharing a lot of US - transgender news, which is good since I have dropped off using Reddit - which is where I “got” my “news” from.</p> - <h3>Podcasts</h3> - <p>The other mainstay in RSS is podcasts. Some even say if a podcast - can’t be consumed via RSS, is it even a podcast? I would agree. - Everything else is just a show. I don’t <em>need</em> the content to be - consumable from my reader, but I’d really appreciate it if were. I am - always on the lookout for more podcasts though. With the only two - consistent listens being:</p> - <ol> - <li> - <a rel="external noopener noreferrer" - target="_blank" - href="https://www.relay.fm/penaddict">The Pen Addict Podcast - (relay.fm)</a> - </li> - <li> - <a rel="external noopener noreferrer" - target="_blank" - href="https://www.relay.fm/cortex">Cortex Podcast (relay.fm)</a> - </li> - </ol> - <p>And currently off-season:</p> - <ul> - <li> - <a rel="external noopener noreferrer" - target="_blank" - href="https://www.relay.fm/backmarkers">Backmarkers Podcast - (relay.fm)</a> - </li> - </ul> - <p>Which has a YouTube video format. Though, I honestly really don’t care - for Austin Evans, I just enjoy consuming some F1 content and pretending I - have friends I can talk to about motor racing.</p> - <p>While writing this section I added:</p> - <ul> - <li> - <a rel="external noopener noreferrer" - target="_blank" - href="https://inside.java/podcast/">Inside.java Podcast</a> - </li> - </ul> - <p>I have yet to listen, some of the topics seem interesting and being - infrequent gives me hope its quality over quantity. (And I like having - podcasts for chores to distract my brain)</p> - <h3>Tech News</h3> - <p>Right now I follow two main news sources in tech:</p> - <ol> - <li> - <a rel="external noopener noreferrer" - target="_blank" - href="https://www.debian.org/News/">debian.org/news</a> - </li> - <li> - <a rel="external noopener noreferrer" - target="_blank" - href="https://lwn.net/">LWN.net</a> - </li> - </ol> - <p>Running servers using stable debian - it’s good to know when security - updates come in, as well as distro updates. And LWN is fantastic, I’ve - been a subscriber for many years and while sometimes (Jake) can focus a - bit heavy on Python news, has been always interesting to read.</p> - <p>This is the section I plan on adding more and more to. I had other - tech blogs that just felt like clutter and were pushing out daily - articles that I couldn’t care less about (opensource.com cough cough). - But that’s just me. Tech news is mainly where I want to focus - since - fluff blogs are rarely my cup of tea.</p> - <p>LWN has some links in their weekly editions for other news feeds I - might consider directly subscribing too, but for now I have these.</p> - <h3>Music News</h3> - <p>Some folk have an RSS feed for their site updates, which I appreciate. - Some use sites like Squarespace but don’t properly connect up the RSS - feed which I do NOT appreciate.</p> - <p>So right now I have two bandsites that DO update it seems (as their - site aligns with the feed) - but the only one I’ll mention is: <a rel= - "external noopener noreferrer" - target="_blank" - href="https://raisedbyswans.com/">raisedbyswans.com</a> I’ve spoken of - this artist in my Music Spotlight MANY times and is one of my - favorites. His site, while entirely simple, is setup with RSS and has - been publishing his updates consistently. I appreciate this. Always a - strong rec from me!</p> - <p>I’ve been toying with Music Review sites that talk about new releases - in the genres they specialize in, but I haven’t settled on anything that - is helping me discover new music.</p> - <h3>YouTube</h3> - <p>This is probably where the biggest change has actually come in. Having - my YouTube feed fed through RSS has been fantastic. I am able to not only - refresh and not miss any updates (since YouTube sometimes likes to pull - updates in out of order than I don’t see it because it’s buried between - some other videos that I’d already seen.</p> - <p>But this also allows me one further level of filtering on my YouTube - subscriptions. I can stay subscribed to channels I am interested in - watching <em>occasionally</em> but not every video, and keep those off my - RSS feed. And for the “I like to watch most if not all the new videos” I - can subscribe to those via RSS. So it’s like the “bell” but without the - app basically. And since on Mobile I do NOT use the YouTube app (so I can - take advantage of the Ad Blocker in Firefox) that’s great!</p> - <p>What sucks / is tricky is actually subscribing to the RSS feeds - because YouTube buried that feature now. You just need the channel_id or - the username and you can subscribe using the following URL:</p> - <pre><code>https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id={ID} -</code></pre> - <p>And you can obtain the channel_id either using the URL (though with - aliases now (@channelname) its rare to see a channel_id in the URL) if - present otherwise a little console JS can print it out:</p> - <pre><code>ytInitialData.metadata.channelMetadataRenderer.externalId -</code></pre> - <p>A note however - you’ll need to clear the console if you navigate to - the next channel, at least in Firefox, it caches the result otherwise and - you’ll print out the duplicate value. There are some tools where you can - print your subscribers list into these feed URLs and bulk subscribe. I’ve - lost the link (and it’s what I did initially) but I recommend doing the - manual add at least to focus on the channels you WANT in RSS, since you - can always fallback to the main subscriptions page on YouTube.</p> - <p>But what this has given me is the ability to effectively ignore - YouTube almost entirely. Ideally, I’d script something with YouTube-dl - but I don’t REALLY care that much, and I’ve gotten into the habit of - closing the tab after the video so I don’t stick around and get sucked - into the algorithm.</p> - <p>What my morning looks like is sitting down, switching to my tt-rss - tab, seeing what’s fresh, and watching a video with my coffee maybe, then - just moving on and doing something else. I still lurk Mastodon, or get - sucked into my computer in some way or another, but it’s been really - positive! I can count on one hand how many times since dedicating to RSS - I’ve just clicked around YouTube.</p> - <h3>Hobby</h3> - <p>The last section which really is an extension of Blogs/News is “hobby” - RSS feeds. These feed a bit into the consumerist side of life and why I - keep them separate. Right now it’s almost <em>entirely</em> fountain pen - related (Who'da thought this community would still be writing blogs - :P) but since most of the blog posts are either about products or reviews - in some way, I try and limit how much I expose myself to them. I have - been working on a draft about consumerism for quite a while now and just - haven’t really worked it into a post that isn’t just DAE consumerism BAD? - low-effort Toot level. (But basically, I kinda hate how all my hobbies, - and hobbies in general rely heavily on a consumerism mindset, GAS, and - such). So I’ve been trying to be more appreciative of what I already have - and such.</p> - <p>But these blogs are nice, and often keep in the know about my hobbies - and can react to anything meaningful that’s being released. A good video - sorta on this topic was by Adam Neely(<a rel= - "external noopener noreferrer" - target="_blank" - href="https://www.youtube.com/v/mHoljbkyAEs">Adam Neely - How In-Ear - Monitors are Making Better Musicians</a>), and how his band spend - $6000 on gear for their tour, but what it did was eliminate stress and - enable them to more easily fine tune and control how they monitor - their live performance. He touches on the fact that gear videos feed - into the consumerist mindset of music making, but gear is often - necessary to facilitate certain things, and setting up a portable - in-ear-monitor rig for their entire band is well… unavoidable. It’s - just a minor aside in a much deeper video about IEMs and touring and - FEEL. And quite the departure from his usual music education content. - But it sums up the main thesis of my consumerism gemlog quite nicely I - feel (or at least I am projecting my thoughts into a brief aside he - makes).</p> - <h2>tt-rss - in retrospect</h2> - <p>So tt-rss is <em>fine</em> honestly, I think I need to setup a better - theme, something that has a bit more contrast. I don’t REALLY read in it, - I just use it as the aggregator and then open the links directly. I don’t - mind the way it renders the full articles with images, but I do mind how - GREY it is by default (in “night” theme). It looks totally customizable - and I bet I can download a decent theme for it if I look. But I may spend - some time doing that and try and read more in application.</p> - <p>But other than that it’s been quite the improvement over my internet - experience. More RSS!!</p> - <h2>Conclusion</h2> - <p>I need more feeds, as I do enjoy reading. So I’m always on the look - out. I hate to throw in engagement-y things like “let me know” stuff but - I am genuinely looking for interesting suggestions for stuff you might - subscribe to over RSS. Even if it’s just “this is my webblog” :) I always - like reading people’s things. I should troll the aggregators and look at - folks capsule landings to see what is linked!</p> - <p>Anyway, you should look into getting an RSS aggregator setup. It’s - been really impactful on cutting down on internet scrolling and - mindlessness.</p> - </article> - <div id="footer"> - <i>December 31, 2022</i> - </div> - <div id='copyright'> - © 2023 senders dot io - <a rel="license external noopener noreferrer" - target="_blank" - href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">CC BY-SA - 4.0</a> unless otherwise noted. - </div> - </div> -</body> -</html> |