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Pre-enshittification tech. [discussion/fun] (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 week ago by FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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What kind of pre-enshittification tech do you all use? Stuff where ppl look at you like you're an alien b/c nobody does it that any more.

Me ->

Oldschool offline mp3 player rather than Spottify or other streaming or phone app, to use when running.

Paper books rather than e-books.

DRM free games I buy on GOG to avoid rootkitting my own comp.

Wired speakers rather than smart speakers.

Old ass pre-connected car.

Prob more but I can't think of it all rn.

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[–] flameleaf@lemmy.ml 17 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

RSS feeds instead of algorithms

[–] seffen@literature.cafe 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Do you have any guide or advice on utilizing RSS? I’ve caught myself opening Lemmy and Reddit immediately after I close it and I figured I gotta stop that

[–] flameleaf@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago

Reddit's what got me into RSS in the first place. Adding different subs to my reader let me go through posts on my own terms instead of relying on refreshing browser tabs. These days Reddit is dead to me because their feeds are rate-limited to the point where they're unusable.

That's why I switched to Lemmy doing more or less the same. Feeds organized into folders, filtered and tagged in my reader which I usually just check once a day.

I also self-host RSSHub to generate feeds for sites that don't provide them.

Basically I treat my RSS reader as a web browser. I get everything web-related through it, only opening Firefox for quick searches or to find new feeds. It helps that I use Thunderbird as my RSS reader, so I get email and feeds all in the same place. I also have it configured to open links with different applications so I can open media links directly with yt-dlp, gallery-dl, etc...