Yeah I’d rather just load a different page.

Not disabling my adblocker for any reason.

Sometimes they get through the filters. But that’s what the element picker mode is for.

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…

RSS feeds instead of algorithms

I already download all my media so I have offline access.

I’m honestly sick of social media. I mainly just view it as a news source, only commenting on Reddit Lemmy threads because its convenient to do so.

How is #4 going to work if I use Linux on my primary devices?

I watch without an account and they’re definitely tracking my watch history regardless of that

This seems simultaneously overkill and extremely minimalist at the same time.

Firefox can open videos, but if I try to skip ahead on a HEVC encode I only get audio and there’s performance issues in general. Also no way to change audio tracks and no subtitles.

just use a browser.

For offline videos?

Web services which are more than likely running on Linux servers…

Is the website old enough to be online?

Thunderbird on desktop, RSSHub to generate feeds for sites that don’t support it

Lemmy communities have RSS feeds

Reddit -> Lemmy is a recent switch that I’m happy with