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via Assaf 🌴 (@assaf@mas.to): “A collection of personal websites and an RSS reader can produce a surprisingly good Internet. It will probably be a smaller one. That’s fine.”

A thoughtful case for owning your own corner of the web: a website is a place you control, while a social media account is space inside someone else’s place — including the audience, which was never really yours. Refreshingly, it avoids simple nostalgia and acknowledges that the old web had real problems too.

Kev Quirk walks through EchoFeed, Robb Knight’s managed service that watches an RSS feed and automatically cross-posts new entries to Mastodon, Bluesky, Micro.blog, GitHub, Discord, or a webhook. It’s free for a single feed and $25/year for more (with a discount for omg.lol members), making it a cheap, set-and-forget alternative to Micro.blog’s cross-posting service.

The New York Times looks at how outdoor magazines like Backpacker and Outside have shed their print editions, and what’s lost when a genre built on long-form storytelling and large-format photography moves entirely online. A reminder that the economics of digital publishing reshape not just distribution but the kind of work that gets made.

via Paul Cantrell (@inthehands@hachyderm.io): @voltagex@aus.social Here you go: https://github.com/pcantrell/masto-comment-fetcher

Paul Cantrell shares the Ruby code he uses to pull Mastodon replies in as blog comments on innig.net. It’s not a drop-in library — it leans on context from his own site — but it’s a useful set of recipes if you want to wire fediverse conversations into your own blog.

Dan Moren drops Feedly and moves his RSS subscriptions into Reeder’s own iCloud-synced feed list, cutting out the sync service entirely. The bigger point: RSS and OPML remain one of the few places where moving your data between apps and services takes about a minute — a portability standard the rest of the web could learn from.

via Helgztech: Nice post from Scott Hanselman on “owning your words.” Don’t be a digital sharecropper.

Found this via Mastodon (probably a Lisa Melton boost, though I don’t have the original source now):

via David Revoy: I may have found an alternative solution to my blog's commenting system! 😺

Via Andreas Gohr: Yesterday I added more than 300 more blogs to indieblog.page which I got from bringback.blog. If you want to discover new #blogs to read you might want to check out both projects.

I ran across this article on the hot mess that is YAML recently and enjoyed it for many reasons.

Tantek Çelik: 11 years ago today, Ryan Barrett launched Bridgy to copy #socialmedia replies as comments on original blog posts. This meant those of us building #IndieWeb sites could use a service for that functionality, instead of having to write code ourselves, for each proprietary API.