Transition from social media

1

Nitter

Q: But I liked to see what people say on Twitter! What to do? A: Some RSS readers have the option to read items from Twitter directly. Feedly has it, too, but it's a paid option. So instead, use Nitter, which is a web site that give you an RSS feed for any Twitter URL, for free.

#Social Network #Social Networks #Decentralized Social Network 300 social mentions

2

Hacker News

Q: What are your sources? A: That could be a blog post in itself. I start with the web sites that I am usually following, like BBC News, for example. But I am saving the feeds for the categories I am interested in: Science, Medicine, Entertainment, etc. This way I get around all the stupid politics. Then there are web sites like Phys.org, Hacker News, Space News, Medical Xpress, Ars Technica, etc. Of course, every time I find an interesting person, book author, good programmer and so on, I try to find their blog and add it to the list, or at least their Twitter feed (see above). And then there are some web sites that pride themselves in serving "long content": well thought out articles, researched and crafted over time. Alas, most of them tend to be political, but still very informative occasionally. Mentioning just a few: Longform, Longreads, The Conversation, The American Scholar.

#Social Networks #Social News #Startups 501 social mentions

3

Medium

Q: I am getting stuff that I am interested in, then go to web sites and they have paywalls! What to do? A: Yes, sites like NewScientist, TheEconomist, NewYorkTimes, even Medium, etc. Love to ask you for money to read their stuff. There are methods to bypass those paywalls, but not always and not always reliable. For example there is a web site that is called 12ft.io, which works as a proxy to remove paywalls, but it doesn't always work. I am sure there must be alternatives out there, too. Share them with me if you find them and I will update this answer.

#Blogging #Blogging Platform #CMS 2211 social mentions

4

Medical Xpress

Q: What are your sources? A: That could be a blog post in itself. I start with the web sites that I am usually following, like BBC News, for example. But I am saving the feeds for the categories I am interested in: Science, Medicine, Entertainment, etc. This way I get around all the stupid politics. Then there are web sites like Phys.org, Hacker News, Space News, Medical Xpress, Ars Technica, etc. Of course, every time I find an interesting person, book author, good programmer and so on, I try to find their blog and add it to the list, or at least their Twitter feed (see above). And then there are some web sites that pride themselves in serving "long content": well thought out articles, researched and crafted over time. Alas, most of them tend to be political, but still very informative occasionally. Mentioning just a few: Longform, Longreads, The Conversation, The American Scholar.

#Health And Fitness #Health And Medical #Maps 4 social mentions

5

Feedly

So I use Feedly, which I think it's very nice. There are a lot of alternatives, though, with various features, some paid, some free. Feedly comes as a free RSS reader, it allows you to also add web sites as sources directly (so they would parse the web site for you and serve it as RSS) and has other gathering methods that are paid, but as I will show you, can be replaced by free options. You can mark items for reading later or use some other system, like opening them in the browser and then reading and closing tabs.

#Insight Management #RSS #RSS Reader 20 social mentions

6

DEV.to

First of all, the state of the blogosphere, as far as I see, is not good. Influenced by pressure from various (some even well intentioned) directions, people have stopped investing in regularly updated personal content sites. Facebook pushed people towards sharing rather than digesting information, meaning the Internet is flooded with shares, but not with actual original content. Twitter pushed people towards microblogging, which is basically limiting what you have to say about things and then sharing something. Dev.to is a blogging platform for developers, anyone can blog there. Great source for information, one might think, but it quickly turned into a place where people recycle short content in order to be rewarded with "hearts", which most people do not award to articles that are informative, complex and take a long time to read and process. They don't even read those. This of course if they do not blatantly advertise something or push some agenda. So many people have moved their tutorials, experiments and knowledge sharing to video, as this is the way children and young people absorb information nowadays. It is slow and not something that can be browsed easily or split into useful bits that can be reused. All of these are making people write less, in smaller bits and with reduced complexity or publish it as video. Basically the ordinary TV news item that I am trying to avoid.

#CMS #Blogging #Blogging Platform 389 social mentions

7

Brave

Q: I am trying to read the articles I am interested in, but web sites are filled with ads! What to do? A: for desktop browsers Chrome and Edge install an extension to block ads. I use uBlock Origin and I am very satisfied with it. When you get to a web site that is not covered or that has some non-advertising related page elements that annoy you, the extension has an option to let you choose the things you want to block. A: for phone/tablet browsers, download and use Brave, which is a fork of Chrome with ad blocking included.

#Web Browsers #Web Development Tools #Web Tools 577 social mentions

8

12 Foot Ladder

Q: I am getting stuff that I am interested in, then go to web sites and they have paywalls! What to do? A: Yes, sites like NewScientist, TheEconomist, NewYorkTimes, even Medium, etc. Love to ask you for money to read their stuff. There are methods to bypass those paywalls, but not always and not always reliable. For example there is a web site that is called 12ft.io, which works as a proxy to remove paywalls, but it doesn't always work. I am sure there must be alternatives out there, too. Share them with me if you find them and I will update this answer.

#Productivity #Web App #News 2368 social mentions