3d ago

The early internet was so human and genuine.

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Lemmy is pretty chill. Combined with a rss feed viewer, a few youtube channel (ff+extension), Nexcloud, and my internet experience is cool. I don't care about tiktok, instagram and all that shit.
- I recently started collecting feeds for my RSS reader, and it is so refreshing. I haven't added any Lemmy feeds to it yet, since I'm on here a lot anyway, but it's nice for blogs and websites that I'm not going to remember to check regularly otherwise.
  
  collecting feeds
  I've been moving back to RSS and have found https://scour.ing/about to be helpful. No affiliation.
  
  What reader do you use?
  
  RSS Guard. I tried a few, then decided that what I really wanted was just a simple app that would run locally, doesn't run in browser, doesn't rely on me creating an account to sync with some external server, and doesn't have limits to the number of feeds I can add.
  It was pretty painless to set up. The only downside is that if I ever want to transfer my feed list to a reader on my phone or another PC, I would have to export the list and then import it, but that's not hard.
  
  Is there a place that gives directions on how to set it up? It looks interesting, but I'm not great with installing non-normie software.
  
  Rest assured, I'm very much a normie with tech stuff too. It wasn't bad to set up. It's been a few months, but I'm sure I just downloaded it from the link on their site and followed the installation prompts.
  The hardest part is finding websites that support RSS. But for an example, say you wanted to receive reports about outbreaks from the FDA, here's their RSS feed: https://www.fda.gov/about-fda/contact-fda/stay-informed/rss-feeds/fda-outbreaks/rss.xml
  You would just go to "add feed" in the RSS reader, and paste the URL, and you're done! You can customize how often you want it to check your feeds for new updates (I have mine check every couple of hours), and when they show up, you can view them within your reader similar to email.
  
  Thanks, that sounds about my speed for installations.
  
  blogs and websites that I’m not going to remember to check regularly otherwise
  Yep, exactly.
- I hate autoplay videos, and I think this feeling of unease when a video autoplays comes from the earlier days of the internet.
- Yo what extensions? I had a really good one that made thumbnails less interesting, and cut out a lot of the CTAs, but I seem to have lost it.
  
  Obviously Ublock origin, the graal of extensions. Otherwise, the only way I can use youtube these days is with the following extensions: "Hide shorts for youtube", "Youtube search fixer", "Replace youtube's home with subscription". Also "return youtube dislike" and "blocktube" (to block stupid channels youtube keeps recommanding" are cool.
  One more general level: I still dont care about cookies, darkreader, bitwarden (password manager), detrumpify (replace trump with a random insult), google sign-in pop-up blocker, flagfox, and many more lol.
  
  Nice, ty for this list

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