Post AOXpyzFB6FEvLBd2OG by pgronkievitz@pleroma.gronkiewicz.dev
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(DIR) Post #AOTCvKfYpBgxmuOb3o by mikael@merveilles.town
2022-10-11T20:53:18Z
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Goozilla removed Atom/RSS support and normie blogs were subsequently newsletterified. Newsletters are stupid but Substack is still in the bait stage and provides feeds — that's fortunate. Keep in mind that the “switch” days *will* always come as soon as investors come back for some profits.
(DIR) Post #AOXpyzFB6FEvLBd2OG by pgronkievitz@pleroma.gronkiewicz.dev
2022-10-11T21:01:19.145877Z
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@mikael then kill the newsletter comes into play
(DIR) Post #AOXpyznD3iSh2jYDR2 by mikael@merveilles.town
2022-10-11T21:14:29Z
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@pgronkievitz As long as Substack keeps the “Let me read it first” button and lets you view the posts without paying or signing in, I guess. I think my point is that the centralized newsletters services suck even if they provide a web page per newsletter. I'm just a simple Pinboard (centralized too) man, so I should probably shut up though. For emergency use, https://notifier.in/ works well too.
(DIR) Post #AOXpz0E9RY0qOI9jQe by nafnlj@linuxrocks.online
2022-10-14T03:01:04Z
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@mikael @pgronkievitz For creating RSS feeds for sites that do not have them, also see https://morss.it/ - free, open source, and can even be self-hosted. It has worked for the few sites I tested it on.
(DIR) Post #AOYCOo8rCHINQgODIG by mikael@merveilles.town
2022-10-14T07:12:15Z
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@nafnlj @pgronkievitz Well, thank YOU! I've been looking for a self hosted option. Last commit in February. Hope it's not dying.
(DIR) Post #AOq1gay2ZDiEwdj1FI by mikael@merveilles.town
2022-10-21T20:26:32Z
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@max @nafnlj @pgronkievitz Missed this when I posted my last toot:https://boards.greenhouse.io/substack/jobs/4006118005orhttps://web.archive.org/web/20220915170218/https://boards.greenhouse.io/substack/jobs/4006118005…could this be a first sign of a slope that's getting slippy?
(DIR) Post #AOq1gbSsiYNmUI9eJk by nafnlj@linuxrocks.online
2022-10-22T21:28:02Z
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@mikael @max @pgronkievitz I don't follow Substack developments too closely but the fact that they built their own online feed reader seems to suggest some interest in feeds and their feeds don't circumvent their paywalls. Maybe they'll kill off the newsletter feeds, but I will guess a tiny fraction of people who read anything on Substack are aware that the newsletters have feeds (much less of feeds generally).
(DIR) Post #AOq1jCEwxVtz7hsISG by nafnlj@linuxrocks.online
2022-10-22T21:35:19Z
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@mikael My take on Substack is that it's fine and a good service for what it is (for now, and so long feeds are an option), but I agree with your qualms and I think that it would be unwise for anyone who doesn't have a big following/deal with Substack to stake everything on it. Substack should be complementary to a personal site, not the personal site in and of itself.