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 Pluralistic: You should be using an RSS reader (16 Oct 2024)
 
 
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 Today's links
 
   • [15]You should be using an RSS reader: The one thing you can choose to do
     that will make your internet life better and make the internet better for
     everyone else, too.
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 A rifle-bearing, bearded rebel with crossed bandoliers stands atop a mainframe.
 His belt bears the RSS logo. The mainframe is on a floor made of a busy,
 resistor-studded circuit board. The background is a halftoned RSS logo. Around
 the rebel is a halo of light.
 
 You should be using an RSS reader ([23]permalink)
 
 No matter how hard we all wish it were otherwise, the sad fact is that there
 aren't really individual solutions to systemic problems. For example: your
 personal diligence in recycling will have no meaningful impact on the climate
 emergency.
 
 I get it. People write to me all the time, they say, "What can I change about
 my life to fight enshittification, or, at the very least, to reduce the amount
 of enshittification that I, personally, experience?"
 
 It's frustrating, but my general answer is, "Join a movement. Get involved with
 a union, with EFF, with the FSF. Tell your Congressional candidate to defend
 Lina Khan from billionaire Dem donors who want her fired. Do something systemic
 ."
 
 There's very little you can do as a consumer. You're not going to shop your way
 out of monopoly capitalism. Now that Amazon has destroyed most of the
 brick-and-mortar and digital stores out of business, boycotting Amazon often
 just means doing without. The collective action problem of leaving Twitter or
 Facebook is so insurmountable that you end up stuck there, with a bunch of
 people you love and rely on, who all love each other, all hate the platform,
 but can't agree on a day and time to leave or a destination to leave for and so
 end up stuck there.
 
 I've been experiencing some challenging stuff in my personal life lately and
 yesterday, I just found myself unable to deal with my usual podcast fare so I
 tuned into the videos from the very last XOXO, in search of uplifting fare:
 
 [24]https://www.youtube.com/@xoxofest
 
 I found it. Talks by Dan Olson, Cabel Sasser, Ed Yong and many others,
 especially Molly White:
 
 [25]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTaeVVAvk-c
 
 Molly's talk was so, so good, but when I got to her call to action, I found
 myself pulling a bit of a face:
 
     But the platforms do not exist without the people, and there are a lot more
     of us than there are of them. The platforms have installed themselves in a
     position of power, but they are also vulnerable…
 
 Are the platforms really that vulnerable? The collective action problem is so
 hard, the switching costs are so high – maybe the fact that "there's a lot more
 of us than there are of them" is a bug, not a feature. The more of us there
 are, the thornier our collective action problem and the higher the switching
 costs, after all.
 
 And then I had a realization: the conduit through which I experience Molly's
 excellent work is totally enshittification-proof, and the more I use it, the
 easier it is for everyone to be less enshittified.
 
 This conduit is anti-lock-in, it works for nearly the whole internet. It is
 surveillance-resistant, far more accessible than the web or any mobile app
 interface. It is my secret super-power.
 
 It's RSS.
 
 RSS (one of those ancient internet acronyms with multiple definitions,
 including, but not limited to, "Really Simple Syndication") is an invisible,
 automatic way for internet-connected systems to public "feeds." For example,
 rather than reloading the Wired homepage every day and trying to figure out
 which stories are new (their layout makes this very hard to do!), you can just
 sign up for Wired's RSS feed, and use an RSS reader to monitor the site and
 preview new stories the moment they're published. Wired pushes about 600 words
 from each article into that feed, stripped of the usual stuff that makes Wired
 nearly impossible to read: no 20-second delay subscription pop-up, text in a
 font and size of your choosing. You can follow Wired's feed without any
 cookies, and Wired gets no information about which of its stories you read.
 Wired doesn't even get to know that you're monitoring its feed.
 
 I don't mean to pick on Wired here. This goes for every news source I follow –
 from CNN to the New York Times. But RSS isn't just good for the news! It's good
 for everything. Your friends' blogs? Every blogging platform emits an RSS feed
 by default. You can follow every one of them in your reader.
 
 Not just blogs. Do you follow a bunch of substackers or other newsletters?
 They've all got RSS feeds. You can read those newsletters without ever
 registering in the analytics of the platforms that host them. The text shows up
 in black and white (not the sadistic, 8-point, 80% grey-on-white type these
 things all default to). It is always delivered, without any risk of your email
 provider misclassifying an update as spam:
 
 [26]https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/10/dead-letters/
 
 Did you know that, by default, your email sends information to mailing list
 platforms about your reading activity? The platform gets to know if you opened
 the message, and often how far along you've read in it. On top of that, they
 get all the private information your browser or app leaks about you, including
 your location. This is unbelievably gross, and you get to bypass all of it,
 just by reading in RSS.
 
 Are your friends too pithy for a newsletter, preferring to quip on social
 media? Unfortunately, it's pretty hard to get an RSS feed from Insta/FB/
 Twitter, but all those new ones that have popped up? They all have feeds. You
 can follow any Mastodon account (which means you can follow any Threads
 account) via RSS. Same for Bluesky. That also goes for older platforms, like
 Tumblr and Medium. There's RSS for Hacker News, and there's a sub-feed for the
 comments on every story. You can get RSS feeds for the Fedex, UPS and USPS
 parcels you're awaiting, too.
 
 Your local politician's website probably has an RSS feed. Ditto your state and
 national reps. There's an RSS feed for each federal agency (the FCC has a great
 blog!).
 
 Your RSS reader lets you put all these feeds into folders if you want. You can
 even create automatic folders, based on keywords, or even things like
 "infrequently updated sites" (I follow a bunch of people via RSS who only
 update a couple times per year – cough, Danny O'Brien, cough – and never miss a
 post).
 
 Your RSS reader doesn't (necessarily) have an algorithm. By default, you'll get
 everything as it appears, in reverse-chronological order.
 
 Does that remind you of anything? Right: this is how social media used to work,
 before it was enshittified. You can single-handedly disenshittify your
 experience of virtually the entire web, just by switching to RSS, traveling
 back in time to the days when Facebook and Twitter were more interested in
 showing you the things you asked to see, rather than the ads and boosted
 content someone else would pay to cram into your eyeballs.
 
 Now, you sign up to so many feeds that you're feeling overwhelmed and you want
 an algorithm to prioritize posts – or recommend content. Lots of RSS readers
 have some kind of algorithm and recommendation system (I use News, which offers
 both, though I don't use them – I like the glorious higgeldy-piggeldy of the
 undifferentiated firehose feed).
 
 But you control the algorithm, you control the recommendations. And if a new
 RSS reader pops up with an algorithm you're dying to try, you can export all
 the feeds you follow with a single click, which will generate an OPML file.
 Then, with one click, you can import that OPML file into any other RSS reader
 in existence and all your feeds will be seamlessly migrated there. You can
 delete your old account, or you can even use different readers for different
 purposes.
 
 You can access RSS in a browser or in an app on your phone (most RSS readers
 have an app), and they'll sync up, so a story you mark to read later on your
 phone will be waiting for you the next time you load up your reader in a
 browser tab, and you won't see the same stories twice (unless you want to, in
 which case you can mark them as unread).
 
 RSS basically works like social media should work. Using RSS is a chance to
 visit a utopian future in which the platforms have no power, and all power is
 vested in publishers, who get to decide what to publish, and in readers, who
 have total control over what they read and how, without leaking any personal
 information through the simple act of reading.
 
 And here's the best part: every time you use RSS, you bring that world closer
 into being! The collective action problem that the publishers and friends and
 politicians and businesses you care about is caused by the fact that everyone
 they want to reach is on a platform, so if they leave the platform, they'll
 lose that community. But the more people who use RSS to follow them, the less
 they'll depend on the platform.
 
 Unlike those largely useless, performative boycotts of widely used platforms,
 switching to RSS doesn't require that you give anything up. Not only does
 switching to RSS let you continue to follow all the newsletters, webpages and
 social media accounts you're following now, it makes doing so better: more
 private, more accessible, and less enshittified.
 
 Switching to RSS lets you experience just the good parts of the enshitternet,
 but that experience is delivered in manner that the new, good internet we're
 all dying for.
 
 My own newsletter is delivered in fulltext via RSS. If you're reading this as a
 Mastodon or Twitter thread, on Tumblr or on Medium, or via email, you can get
 it by RSS instead:
 
 [27]https://pluralistic.net/feed/
 
 Don't worry about which RSS reader you start with. It literally doesn't matter.
 Remember, you can switch readers with two clicks and take all the feeds you've
 subscribed to with you! If you want a recommendation, I have nothing but praise
 for Newsblur, which I've been paying $2/month for since 2011 (!):
 
 [28]https://newsblur.com/
 
 Subscribing to feeds is super-easy, too: the links for RSS feeds are invisibly
 embedded in web-pages. Just paste the URL of a web-page into your RSS reader's
 "add feed" box and it'll automagically figure out where the feed lives and add
 it to your subscriptions.
 
 It's still true that the new, good internet will require a movement to overcome
 the collective action problems and the legal barriers to disenshittifying
 things. Almost nothing you do as an individual is going to make a difference.
 
 But using RSS will! Using RSS to follow the stuff that matters to you will have
 an immediate, profoundly beneficial impact on your own digital life – and it
 will appreciably, irreversibly nudge the whole internet towards a better state.
 
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 Hey look at this ([29]permalink)
 
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 * You Can't Make Friends With The Rockstars [30]https://www.wheresyoured.at/
 rockstars/
 
   • Tom Lehrer Discovers Australia (And Vice Versa) [31]https://
     taylorjessen.blogspot.com/2024/10/tom-lehrer-tom-lehrer-discovers.html
 
   • Conceptual models of space colonization [32]https://www.antipope.org/
     charlie/blog-static/2024/10/conceptual-models-of-space-col.html
 
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 A Wayback Machine banner.
 
 This day in history ([33]permalink)
 
 #20yrsago Sony bullies Retropod off the net [34]https://web.archive.org/web/
 20041018040446/http://www.retropod.com/
 
 #15yrsago This Side of Jordan – Violent jazz age novel by Charles M Schulz’s
 son Monte [35]https://memex.craphound.com/2009/10/16/
 this-side-of-jordan-violent-jazz-age-novel-by-charles-m-schulzs-son-monte/
 
 #10yrsago FBI chief demands an end to cellphone security [36]https://
 www.nytimes.com/2014/10/17/us/politics/
 fbi-director-in-policy-speech-calls-dark-devices-hindrance-to-crime-solving.html
 
 #10yrsago Please, Disney: put back John’s grandad’s Haunted Mansion tombstone 
 [37]https://thedisneyblog.com/2014/10/16/
 petition-to-return-a-lost-tombstone-to-the-haunted-mansion/
 
 #10yrsago How Microsoft hacked trademark law to let it secretly seize whole
 businesses [38]https://www.wired.com/2014/10/microsoft-pinkerton/
 
 #10yrsago If you think you’ve anonymized a data set, you’re probably wrong [39]
 https://web.archive.org/web/20141014172827/http://research.neustar.biz/2014/09/
 15/riding-with-the-stars-passenger-privacy-in-the-nyc-taxicab-dataset/
 
 #10yrsago The lost cyber-crayolas of the mid-1990s [40]https://
 memex.craphound.com/2014/10/16/the-lost-cyber-crayolas-of-the-mid-1990s/
 
 #5yrsago “The People’s Money”: A crisp, simple, thorough explanation of how
 government spending is paid for [41]https://neweconomicperspectives.org/2019/10
 /the-peoples-money-part-1.html
 
 #5yrsago What it’s like to have Apple rip off your successful Mac app [42]
 https://memex.craphound.com/2019/10/16/
 what-its-like-to-have-apple-rip-off-your-successful-mac-app/
 
 #5yrsago Blizzard suspends college gamers from competitive play after they
 display “Free Hong Kong” poster [43]https://www.vice.com/en/article/
 three-college-hearthstone-protesters-banned-for-six-months/
 
 #5yrsago Terrified of bad press after its China capitulation, Blizzard cancels
 NYC Overwatch event [44]https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-15/
 blizzard-cancels-overwatch-event-as-it-tries-to-contain-backlash
 
 #5yrsago A San Diego Republican operator ran a massive, multimillion-dollar
 Facebook scam that targeted boomers [45]https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/
 craigsilverman/facebook-subscription-trap-free-trial-scam-ads-inc
 
 #5yrsago Britain’s unbelievably stupid, dangerous porn “age verification”
 scheme is totally dead [46]https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/10/
 uk-government-abandons-planned-porn-age-verification-scheme/
 
 #5yrsago Not only is Google’s auto-delete good for privacy, it’s also good news
 for competition [47]https://memex.craphound.com/2019/10/16/
 not-only-is-googles-auto-delete-good-for-privacy-its-also-good-news-for-competition
 /
 
 #5yrsago Edward Snowden on the global war on encryption: “This is our new
 battleground” [48]https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/15/
 encryption-lose-privacy-us-uk-australia-facebook
 
 #5yrsago In Kansas’s poor, sick places, hospitals and debt collectors send the
 ailing to debtor’s prison [49]https://features.propublica.org/medical-debt/
 when-medical-debt-collectors-decide-who-gets-arrested-coffeyville-kansas
 
 #5yrsago Want a ride in a Lyft? Just sign away your right to sue if they kill,
 maim, rape or cheat you [50]https://memex.craphound.com/2019/10/16/
 want-a-ride-in-a-lyft-just-sign-away-your-right-to-sue-if-they-kill-maim-rape-or-cheat-you
 /
 
 #5yrsago #RedForEd rebooted: Chicago’s teachers are back on strike [51]https://
 www.thenation.com/article/archive/union-strike-chicago-teachers/
 
 #1yrago One of America's most corporate-crime-friendly bankruptcy judges forced
 to recuse himself [52]https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/16/texas-two-step/#
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 Upcoming appearances ([53]permalink)
 
 A photo of me onstage, giving a speech, holding a mic.
 
   • OKFN Tech We Want Online Summit (Remote), Oct 18
     [54]https://okfn.org/en/events/the-tech-we-want-online-summit/
 
   • SOSS Fusion (Atlanta), Oct 22
     [55]https://sossfusion2024.sched.com/speaker/cory_doctorow.1qm5qfgn
 
   • Eagle Eye Books (Decatur), Oct 23
     [56]https://eagleeyebooks.com/event/2024-10-23/cory-doctorow
 
   • TusCon (Tucson), Nov 8-10
     [57]https://tusconscificon.com/
 
   • International Cooperative Alliance (New Delhi), Nov 24
     [58]https://icanewdelhi2024.coop/welcome/pages/Programme
 
   • ISSA-LA Holiday Celebration keynote (Los Angeles), Dec 18
     [59]https://issala.org/event/issa-la-december-18-dinner-meeting/
 
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 A screenshot of me at my desk, doing a livecast.
 
 Recent appearances ([60]permalink)
 
   • Speciale intervista a Cory Doctorow (Digitalia)
     [61]https://digitalia.fm/744/
 
   • Was There Ever An Old, Good Internet? (David Graeber Institute)
     [62]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6Jlxx5TboE
 
   • Go Fact Yourself
     [63]https://maximumfun.org/episodes/go-fact-yourself/
     ep-158-aida-rodriguez-cory-doctorow/
 
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 A grid of my books with Will Stahle covers..
 
 Latest books ([64]permalink)
 
   • The Bezzle: a sequel to "Red Team Blues," about prison-tech and other
     grifts, Tor Books (US), Head of Zeus (UK), February 2024 ([65]
     the-bezzle.org). Signed, personalized copies at Dark Delicacies ([66]https:
     //www.darkdel.com/store/p3062/Available_Feb_20th%3A_The_Bezzle_HB.html#/).
 
   • "The Lost Cause:" a solarpunk novel of hope in the climate emergency, Tor
     Books (US), Head of Zeus (UK), November 2023 ([67]http://lost-cause.org).
     Signed, personalized copies at Dark Delicacies ([68]https://www.darkdel.com
     /store/p3007/Pre-Order_Signed_Copies%3A_The_Lost_Cause_HB.html#/)
 
   • "The Internet Con": A nonfiction book about interoperability and Big Tech
     (Verso) September 2023 ([69]http://seizethemeansofcomputation.org). Signed
     copies at Book Soup ([70]https://www.booksoup.com/book/9781804291245).
 
   • "Red Team Blues": "A grabby, compulsive thriller that will leave you
     knowing more about how the world works than you did before." Tor Books [71]
     http://redteamblues.com. Signed copies at Dark Delicacies (US): [72] and
     Forbidden Planet (UK): [73]https://forbiddenplanet.com/
     385004-red-team-blues-signed-edition-hardcover/.
 
   • "Chokepoint Capitalism: How to Beat Big Tech, Tame Big Content, and Get
     Artists Paid, with Rebecca Giblin", on how to unrig the markets for
     creative labor, Beacon Press/Scribe 2022 [74]https://
     chokepointcapitalism.com
 
   • "Attack Surface": The third Little Brother novel, a standalone
     technothriller for adults. The Washington Post called it "a political
     cyberthriller, vigorous, bold and savvy about the limits of revolution and
     resistance." Order signed, personalized copies from Dark Delicacies [75]
     https://www.darkdel.com/store/p1840/Available_Now%3A_Attack_Surface.html
 
   • "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism": an anti-monopoly pamphlet
     analyzing the true harms of surveillance capitalism and proposing a
     solution. [76]https://onezero.medium.com/
     how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism-8135e6744d59?sk=
     f6cd10e54e20a07d4c6d0f3ac011af6b) (signed copies: [77]https://
     www.darkdel.com/store/p2024/
     Available_Now%3A__How_to_Destroy_Surveillance_Capitalism.html)
 
   • "Little Brother/Homeland": A reissue omnibus edition with a new
     introduction by Edward Snowden: [78]https://us.macmillan.com/books/
     9781250774583; personalized/signed copies here: [79]https://www.darkdel.com
     /store/p1750/July%3A__Little_Brother_%26_Homeland.html
 
   • "Poesy the Monster Slayer" a picture book about monsters, bedtime, gender,
     and kicking ass. Order here: [80]https://us.macmillan.com/books/
     9781626723627. Get a personalized, signed copy here: [81]https://
     www.darkdel.com/store/p2682/
     Corey_Doctorow%3A_Poesy_the_Monster_Slayer_HB.html#/.
 
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 Upcoming books ([82]permalink)
 
   • Picks and Shovels: a sequel to "Red Team Blues," about the heroic era of
     the PC, Tor Books, February 2025
 
   • Unauthorized Bread: a middle-grades graphic novel adapted from my novella
     about refugees, toasters and DRM, FirstSecond, 2025
 
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 [colophonim]
 
 Colophon ([83]permalink)
 
 Today's top sources:
 
 Currently writing:
 
   • Enshittification: a nonfiction book about platform decay for Farrar,
     Straus, Giroux. Today's progress: 818 words (64779 words total).
 
   • A Little Brother short story about DIY insulin PLANNING
 
   • Picks and Shovels, a Martin Hench noir thriller about the heroic era of the
     PC. FORTHCOMING TOR BOOKS FEB 2025
 
 Latest podcast: Spill, part one (a Little Brother story) [84]https://
 craphound.com/littlebrother/2024/10/06/spill-part-one-a-little-brother-story/
 
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