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Cake day: January 25th, 2024

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  • I second that excitement! When I first found RSS, it felt like rediscovering the original intent of the internet. It gives you full flexibility of your sources of information all in one place, without giving your data away to a corporate entity, or signing up for any platform for that matter.

    Tbh it is such a breath of fresh air compared to the feeds and platforms we’ve become accustomed to–and RSS has been around longer than them, which is crazy to me.

    I just hope websites on the internet continue to support it–as many older, not as common technologies often get phased out.





  • I’ve thought about this for a while actually. I think the hardest thing to balance would be privacy. With a FOSS-oriented platform like this, and a broad amount of features like Facebook, you would have to have the users sacrifice a certain amount of real-world data to have these all be linked, and convenient. It could be encrypted in some way, so at least the instance’s server wouldn’t be able to read the data, but across users you would. I think a new line or definition would have to be made for people who want to use something like this. Most people, though, probably wouldn’t care. And a FOSS version would 100% be better than Facebook’s servers, where the data is mined and sold.