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My front yard garden in stormy dusk light. There's only about 30 square metres (320 square feet) of bed space but it feeds us very well. #permaculture

I want to read RSS feeds on my Browser natively

me and who

@… another bug report/suggestion, two actually.
#1: comma separated tags/categories in RSS feeds aren't interpreted as separate tags, but as one big long tag
#2: possibly add hashtag search to bridgy web. you can retrieve a list of posts matching a searched hashtag from most instances (iirc), it might be nice to set this up for …

Pinterest adds new tools to let users limit how much AI-generated content they see in their feed in certain categories, including beauty, art, and home decor (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/pinterest-ad…

Pinterest adds controls to let you limit the amount of 'AI slop' in your feed | TechCrunch
Pinterest is rolling out new controls that let users limit how much AI-generated content appears in their feeds. The company is also making its AI content labels more visible.

Value Alignment of Social Media Ranking Algorithms
Farnaz Jahanbakhsh, Dora Zhao, Tiziano Piccardi, Zachary Robertson, Ziv Epstein, Sanmi Koyejo, Michael S. Bernstein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14434

Value Alignment of Social Media Ranking Algorithms
While social media feed rankings are primarily driven by engagement signals rather than any explicit value system, the resulting algorithmic feeds are not value-neutral: engagement may prioritize specific individualistic values. This paper presents an approach for social media feed value alignment. We adopt Schwartz's theory of Basic Human Values -- a broad set of human values that articulates complementary and opposing values forming the building blocks of many cultures -- and we implement an …

During their latest tour stop, Massive Attack shocked fans by integrating facial recognition into the show itself. Live video feeds captured audience faces, processing them through recognition software and projecting the results as part of the visual experience. https://www.

Massive Attack Turns Concert Into Facial Recognition Surveillance Experiment
Massive Attack used live facial recognition technology on concertgoers, turning surveillance into provocative art that sparked debate about privacy.

Meta, TikTok, Google, and YouTube sue California over a new law that prohibits personalized feeds for minors without parental consent, claiming it violates 1A (Bernie Pazanowski/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/states-of-p…

Tech Giants Sue California Over Social Media Access Law (2)
Meta Platforms Inc., TikTok Inc., Google LLC, and YouTube LLC are challenging a California law that forbids social media platforms from allowing minors to access personalized feeds without parental consent.

Child harm/death mention; Columbus
On Indigenous People's Day here in America, it's a great time to:
1. Remember that Columbus was a monster. Anyone who feeds toddlers to dogs actually deserves to burn in hell for eternity. Nothing else about this man should be remembered before this fact.
2. If you're in a colonized country, check out the website(s) for your local indigenous tribe (s) to remind yourself that they're still here. For me, that includes #LandBack, etc.
Me, I'm hopeful for a future in which the US is a distant memory and the hundreds of surviving nations on this territory flourish like budding plants after the winter snow.

The best part about @… is that every search has it's own RSS feed.
Give them a try. https://feedle.world

🤠 Deforestation and disease spread as Nicaragua ignores illegal cattle ranching
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/deforestation-and-disease-spread-as-nicaragua-ignores-illegal-cattle-ranching/

Deforestation and disease spread as Nicaragua ignores illegal cattle ranching
Illegal cattle ranching has torn through Nicaragua’s rainforests in recent years, supplying a growing international market for meat despite calls for better oversight of the industry. Now, the country is feeling the consequences, as disease spreads through the unchecked movement of livestock. Cases of New World screwworm (Cochliomyia hominivorax), or NWS, a fly that feeds […]

Bonsai: Intentional and Personalized Social Media Feeds
Omar El Malki, Marianne Aubin Le Qu\'er\'e, Andr\'es Monroy-Hern\'andez, Manoel Horta Ribeiro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10776

Bonsai: Intentional and Personalized Social Media Feeds
Modern social media feeds use predictive models to maximize engagement, often misaligning how people consume content with how they wish to. We introduce Bonsai, a system that enables people to build personalized and intentional feeds. Bonsai implements a platform-agnostic framework comprising Planning, Sourcing, Curating, and Ranking modules. Altogether, this framework allows users to express their intent in natural language and exert fine-grained control over a procedurally transparent feed cr…

I love looking at Streetwear fashion photography... does anyone have any links to some?
I realise that there's a few feeds on Instagram, but I'm not interested in any Zuck platforms thanks.
#Streetwear #Fashion #Photography

Algorithmen im #Wahlkampf:
> Um die Integrität zukünftiger Wahlen zu gewährleisten, braucht es einen gesellschaftlichen und politischen Diskurs über die Rolle von #SocialMedia-Plattformen in Zeiten digitaler

Algorithmen im Wahlkampf: Studie der Universität Potsdam und der Bertelsmann Stiftung zeigt eine unausgewogene Sichtbarkeit von Parteien in Social-Media-Feeds junger Menschen
Nie zuvor konnten Politiker:innen so unmittelbar in den Alltag von Wähler:innen vordringen. Doch was insbesondere junge Menschen auf den Sozialen Medien über Politik in ihren Feeds sehen, entscheiden Plattform-Algorithmen. Die Studie „Digitalisiert, politisiert, polarisiert?“ zeigt:...

I do love hanging around on a social platform where there simply isn’t any value in all this shit
https://www.theverge.com/news/809349/meta-mark-zuckerberg-ai-social-feeds-q3-2025-earnings

Mark Zuckerberg is excited to add more AI content to all your social feeds
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says AI will add a “huge corpus of content” to social media as the technology makes content easier to create and edit.

Absolute stunner of a day

Was Flash from "The Dukes of Hazzard" non-binary?
"Initially referred to as a boy, Flash is later regularly a girl (despite an occasional male reference afterwards)."
https://dukesofhazzard.fandom.com/wiki/Flash

Flash
Flash is a pet dog owned by Sheriff Rosco Coltrane. She is a slow-paced Basset Hound and Rosco's loyal companion, who hates Hogg but loves the Dukes. She first appeared in the first official third-season episode "Enos Strate to the Top" (the season opener "Carnival of Thrills" was held over from the previous season), although she was not formally "introduced" in that episode. Flash's favorite food is "doggie num-nums," a type of dog treat that Rosco feeds her. Flash, unfortunately, passed...

This could be the start of a script for a Seinfeld-like show updated to 2025...
“I was still charged for that session, Jerry!” <laugh track>

It would be cool if we could subscribe to torrent RSS feeds for the @… library.

Warum Feeds wichtiger sind, als viele denken – https://www.deimeke.net/dirk/blog/index.php?/archives/4427-Warum-Feeds-wichtiger-sind,-als-viele-denken.html

The Authoritarian Stack.
This is brilliant – if you’re interested in human rights, democracy, and tech, and want to understand technofascism/corporatocracy bookmark and read this.👇
#AuthoritarianStack #tech

Want followers for your blog, website, or podcast? Enable your feeds and don't force people to create accounts on third-party sites.
It's sad to find an interesting podcast and discover that it's only available on Apple Podcasts.
No feeds? No party.

YouTube now lets mobile users set a customizable daily limit to restrict how long they can scroll Shorts feeds; the limit notifications are dismissible (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/804113/youtube-shorts-time-limit-pause-feeds…

YouTube will help you quit watching Shorts
YouTube users on mobile can now set a customizable daily limit that restricts how long they can scroll Shorts feeds.

Irgendwie ist die Anzahl der Leute in meinen Feeds, die grade aus USA nach DE ziehen bzw. zurückziehen, in den letzten Monaten stark nach oben gegangen. Woran das wohl liegt…

I made a repository on #codeberg to document my own #FreshRSS settings to get fulltext feeds of different websites: #RSS

I want a #Mastodon client that drip-feeds me posts from prolific posters. I've followed two accounts that boost cool stuff but they are doing 40 posts a day. After finishing up my timeline I refresh and there are a dozen more posts. That's not sustainable for a healthy social media diet (for me - YMMV!). I'd like something that would hold back posts for 2 hours and then only show me…

My RSS reader is empty today :-: :rss:
Guess 79 feeds are not enough.
#rss #freshrss

Imagine cooking for an entire sorority as a professional chef & using the video of meal prep as a content creator.
▶️ How a TikTok-Famous Chef Feeds a Sorority | On the Job | NYT Cooking
https://youtube.com/watch?v=efIDPoDs5ew&si=POso_Z-Ilrc-WqT-
…

🔋 Feeding off spent battery waste, a novel bacterium signals a new method for self-sufficient battery recycling
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-spent-battery-bacterium-method-sufficient.html

Feeding off spent battery waste, a novel bacterium signals a new method for self-sufficient battery recycling
A unique bacterium that thrives in highly acidic environments feeds on spent battery "waste," making it a promising new method for self-sufficient battery recycling, according to new research from Boston College chemists.

@…
It just occurred to me that I should probably let you know about this entry if you didn’t already know about it :
The 27th Annual North Quabbin Garlic and Arts Festival will be held on September 27 and 28, 2025.
10:00 AM – 5:00 PM, Rain or Shine, at Forster Farm, 60 Chestnut Hill Road, Orange, Massachusetts.
It’s garlicky!

North Quabbin Garlic & Arts Festival
Feeding Others Feeds Your Soul

Insiders detail how Nepal's Gen Z protests, born on Discord servers, TikTok feeds, and encrypted messaging apps, ended with an online poll to pick the new PM (Tulsi Rauniyar/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/nepal-discord-gen-z-protests-vote-prime-…

The Inside Story of How Gen Z Toppled Nepal’s Leader and Chose a New One on Discord
The revolution started on social media. It ended with protests, violence, and an online poll to pick the new prime minister.

Dutch court rules Meta violated European law by pushing users to profiled feeds https://therecord.media/dutch-court-meta-violated-european-law-social-feeds

@… https://thedysfunctionalworldof.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

@…
https://journals.sagepub.com/connected/mss#rss-feeds

Here's a quote from HuffPost:
"According to Bluesky analytics site VQV, the official White House account quickly became the platform’s second-most blocked profile, with around 95,000 users smashing the block button to presumably preempt their feeds being filled with AI slop and divisive rants.
"The only account with more blocks on the platform is Vice President JD Vance, who’s been blocked by more than 167,000 users since joining in June."

Perhaps future work should focus on establishing trusted enclaves of knowledge and expertise.
If you’re a knowledge worker, perhaps sharing your knowledge publicly isn’t the best idea anymore. It’s a real bummer because it makes knowledge a luxury of the elite and wealthy.
Rather than working directly on the thing, you focus on the data that feeds into the machine that works on “the thing”. :\

Outstanding episode of @alexpodyssey.bsky.social on the commute home today.@… had me laughing out loud in the first half but as ever the story behind Medusa is much darker, and much more interesting than you thought.
Here's Looking at You, Kid
File:
https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR3457675425.mp3?updated=1756702004
RSS:
https://feeds.megaphone.fm/podyssey

Getting other SM feeds set up in Micro.blog.

Bluesky says it has hit 40M users and plans to launch "dislikes" in beta to tailor content rankings and reply rankings (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/31/bluesky-hits-40-million-users-introduces-dislikes-beta/…

Bluesky hits 40 million users, introduces 'dislikes' beta | TechCrunch
As users "dislike" posts, the system will learn what sort of content they want to see less of. This will help to inform more than just how content is ranked in feeds, but also reply rankings.

FYI, here’s the exact language of 50 U.S.C. § 1702(b) which spells out how media mail is exempt:
https://kind.social/@wbwolf/115103183358864928

I've blogged about how I'm using #FreshRSS to get full-text #RSS feeds – and about crowdsourcing configs that will allow folks to subscribe to more things thanks to the web scraping feature!
https://tzovar.as/fulltext-freshrss/
(Responses to this toot will also become blog comments)

I knew these systems but I didn't know how they worked. Until now:
https://social.afront.org/@MLE_online/115426247045556610
related DEFCON talk:

Today I looked up at one of those early October brilliant blue skies that grace New York.
One might say that I looked up from my phone, from the other kind of Bluesky which feeds me all the madness of the world.
These days I’m trying keep both skies balancing each other with a practice of writing back to the social media posts I encounter.
From sky to screen to sky. It’s a form of play that helps me reclaim my attention and connect to my sense of being.

Another Blue Sky
A series of prose poems written in response to social media posts on Bluesky.

In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information
https://blog.burkert.me/posts/in_praise_of_syndication/

In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information
The way we consume content on the internet is increasingly driven by walled-garden platforms and black-box feed algorithms. This shift is making our media diets miserable. Ironically, a solution to the problem predates algorithmic feeds, social media and other forms of informational junk food. It is called RSS (Really Simple Syndication) and it is beautiful. What the hell is RSS? RSS is just a format that defines how websites can publish updates (articles, posts, episodes, and so on) in a stand…

YouTube now lets mobile users set a customizable daily limit to restrict how long they can scroll Shorts feeds; the limit notifications are dismissible (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/804113/youtube-shorts-time-limit-pause-feeds…

YouTube will help you quit watching Shorts
YouTube users on mobile can now set a customizable daily limit that restricts how long they can scroll Shorts feeds.

Sabot in the Age of AI
A list of offensive methods & strategic approaches for facilitating (algorithmic) sabotage, framework disruption, & intentional data poisoning.
https://tldr.nettime.org/@asrg/113867412641585520

ASRG (@asrg@tldr.nettime.org)
Attached: 1 image ## **Sabot in the Age of AI** A list of offensive methods & strategic approaches for facilitating (algorithmic) sabotage, framework disruption, & intentional data poisoning. ### **Selected Tools & Frameworks** - **Nepenthes** — [Endless crawler trap.](https://zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes) - **Babble** — [Standalone LLM crawler tarpit.](https://git.jsbarretto.com/zesterer/babble) - **Markov Tarpit** — [Traps AI bots & feeds them useless data.](https://git.rys.io/libre/m…

A look at Radio Garden, a free website and app launched in 2016 as an art project, which streams feeds from 37K radio stations worldwide; the app has 3M MAUs (Sebastian Modak/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

This week's Mindscape podcast is with Petter Törnberg who has been running agent based simulated social networks to try and figure out why they're so divisive and polarizing.
His models do apparently capture these features of the networks which promote the most popular posts to everyone.
Sad to learn that simply using chronological feeds apparently not only doesn't help he reckons it makes things worse!
Maybe his agent's just aren't smart enough to follow the right people, but then probably nor are mere humans.
🤔
#socialMedia #podcast #fediverse

Bluesky says it has hit 40M users and plans to launch "dislikes" in beta to tailor content rankings and reply rankings (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/31/bluesky-hits-40-million-users-introduces-dislikes-beta/…

Bluesky hits 40 million users, introduces 'dislikes' beta | TechCrunch
As users "dislike" posts, the system will learn what sort of content they want to see less of. This will help to inform more than just how content is ranked in feeds, but also reply rankings.

Spent the evening improving my #RSS setup by getting more into the possibilities of https://www.freshrss.org/:
Thanks to its support for web scraping, I've now managed to get the full text of articles, instead of just the snippets, of @… en español into my reader.
And even managed to get BBC Mundo scraped into it through the scraping, despite @… unfortunately not providing any official feeds for the Spanish-language news at all.

Designing Usable Controls for Customizable Social Media Feeds
Frederick Choi, Eshwar Chandrasekharan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19615 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Designing Usable Controls for Customizable Social Media Feeds
Personalized recommendation algorithms deliver content to the user on most major social media platforms. While these algorithms are crucial for helping users find relevant content, users lack meaningful control over them. This reduces users' sense of agency and their ability to adapt social media feeds to their own needs and values. Efforts have been made to give users more control over their feeds, but usability remains a major barrier to adoption. Drawing upon prior work in designing teachabl…

Sorry to the folks who had been trying to use the https://masto2rss.gedanken.uber.space/ test instance and ever got any feeds generated in the last days.
There was a bug in my error handling, which meant for subsets of folks it didn't work. That should be fixed now 🙏