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RSS and how it can save the Internet: a short intro
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2kwatts.exozy.me
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#### Wtf is RSS? ####
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RSS is a type of web feed that lets you see updates to certain websites. Whether it's a blog,
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a forum or a social media profile, you can easily see new posts all in one place.
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#### Okay, but why is it important? ####
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Websites like Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, etc. get to decide who is in the spotlight and who
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is listened to. This is a real problem, because at any moment, anyone can be censored and
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hidden by the platform they're using.
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If we use RSS, we can very easily curate the content that we consume and listen to the creators
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that we like. Since RSS is more a protocol than a centralized platform (sorta like E-Mail), there
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is very little chance that people can be censored for thinking differently, and it allows them to
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reach the audience they're looking for.
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#### If it's so good, how come it's for boomers? ####
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Companies like Google used to run RSS/Atom feed readers like Google Reader. Google Reader was released
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in late 2005 and whacked in 2013 by Google itself. This has greatly impacted the decentralized web and
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has turned it into one that is primarily ran by just a handful of big companies.
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#### How to help fix the Internet ####
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This only touches the surface of the Internet iceberg, and I recommend that you dive into RSS a bit more.
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Below I'll list some RSS clients that you can run for free, very easily.
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Linux: Liferea (OSS)
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Android: Feeder (OSS, F-Droid)
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Windows: RSSOwlnix (OSS)
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MacOS users aren't people. But Reeder 5 should be good enough.
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Some RSS feeds I like are The Verge (tech news), XKCD (comic), ta180m's blog (random website)
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