flameeyes, 6 months ago

@sebastianlaube @eliasp would be nicer if we actually got that kind of engines back too.

https://flameeyes.blog/2021/10/05/reader-is-dead-but-what-about-writers/?mtm_campaign=social&mtm_kwd=mastodon

fatboy, 6 months ago

@sebastianlaube Pale Moon, Basilisk

zack, 6 months ago

@sebastianlaube Same thing for search engines. Browsers use to use an icon in the URL bar when a search engine was available on that website, but no more.

I guess when you get paid by the search engine(s), you don't want ppl to be as aware of alternatives

parigotmanchot, 6 months ago

@sebastianlaube There are extensions to do this now, but yes, should be a basic.

sebastianlaube, 6 months ago

341 boosts and 509 likes in 20 hours.
I think I've struck a nerve here. 😅

There are a lot of recommendations for Firefox plugins in the replies (but that was not the point of the Toot 😉).

But on the topic of sharing experiences:
I use a self hosted tiny tiny RSS instance, so I can read my subscribed feed on any device and it keeps track of what i've already seen.

And RSS is awesome!

sebastianlaube, 6 months ago

And people are still telling there is no engagement on Mastodon while my notifications are flowing over 😂

bastianallgeier, 6 months ago

@sebastianlaube Before I stopped using Twitter last year, I've been there for 15+ years, had 5k+ followers in the end and never managed in all those years to get as many reactions and meaningful conversations to my tweets than I got here in just a single year. This place seriously rocks.

C3nC3, 6 months ago

@bastianallgeier

As always this depends greatly on the topics discussed!

@sebastianlaube

zleap, 6 months ago

@sebastianlaube

Agreed as @write_as supprts federation and rss, in fact I think mastodon supports RSS

RyunoKi, 6 months ago

@sebastianlaube There's an extension for that 😔

I'd be happy already if the RSS would be advertised visibly on the homepage itself.

For some pages you can guess the URL from the engine powering the site.

malin, 6 months ago

@RyunoKi @sebastianlaube I'm getting bored of the guessing, so I'm working on a script to pull an RSS feed from a URL.

Just works on YouTube so far...slowly does it.

ruari, 6 months ago

@malin @RyunoKi @sebastianlaube or there is @Vivaldi that not only does this it can play a video right from the feed.

jackyan, 6 months ago

@RyunoKi @sebastianlaube We need to put ours up higher! (Right now itʼs at the bottom.) https://lucire.com/

kyonshi, 6 months ago

@sebastianlaube yes please.

although I also remember a time when I had to add that via plugin because it was not standard yet