demo.rss.chat: all posts

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 03:32:50 GMT

If I could do it all again, I’d do it with style, whoops, I mean, with a different domain.

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 02:04:10 GMT

Kudos to Past Me, who came up with PEACE (Posting Elsewhere, Aggregating Comprehensively and Eternally), seen here on my indieweb.org profile.

I actually came around to POSSE (Publish [on your] Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere), though I don't actually believe you can own anything in the end. You'll die, and then what? You can't take any of it with you. It's more like you control what you publish on a domain that you "own" aka rent until…that's right, until you die. I'm more of the opinion that you should save a copy of what you produce, to elongate the life of that thing just a little bit, after where it has been published ceases to exist. What's the catchy acronym for that?

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 22:09:43 GMT

Technically this is all great. I’m just impatient for a product/ client 🤣

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 21:55:59 GMT

Ah, thanks.

Arthur Jensen explains things to Howard Beale (Network)

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 19:58:17 GMT

"The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable by-laws of business. The world is a business, Mr. Beale! It has been since man crawled out of the slime, and our children, Mr.Beale, will live to see that perfect world in which there is no war and famine, oppression and brutality –one vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock, all necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused. And I have chosen you to preach this evangel, Mr. Beale."

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 19:54:01 GMT

Checking out a change in the feed. Testing something new.

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:48:23 GMT

Yep 👍

short url

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:10:17 GMT

a shorter URL?

https://demo.rss.chat/?JD

this seems to work

animals' advice

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:04:07 GMT

Animals think they understand
Trusting them, a big mistake
Animals want to change my life
I will ignore animals' advice

https://youtu.be/l2Jn3X00y7k

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:02:14 GMT

Ooops, made a mistake -- should work now. ;-)

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:02:23 GMT

Is this working in demo.rss.chat, I see %feedUrlEveryone% inside square brackets for the link href here. Safari, mac

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:58:47 GMT

This is why I think there are multiple webs, not just one. Allegedly "open" by default ("the open web" is a redundancy like how "PIN number" and "ATM machine" are), there's the "behind a paywall web" and the "filled with ads and redirects web" and the "blocked because you don't live in the right region web" or the "blocked because your intense web use flagged you as an automated agent web", and so on. There's also the cozy web (where one only talks about how cozy their web is). This is why I want to leave the web: Every time I get it to a "Goldilocks"/just right web, something knocks it out of whack.

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:53:28 GMT

I have a long-running support case with the support team WhoSampled, recently purchased by Spotify, about being blocked after visiting the site once. It's necessary to have a firewall these days, but because of the aggressiveness of automated visitors, website owners have to be overly protective. My work IP is banned from Wikipedia because it's behind a "VPN". (Technically, yeah. But the "Get a VPN" advice is now no longer a guaranteed way to see content on the web.) I wish I could prove my humanity if not once and for all, but for the next, say, 5 years, and then renew my validation. I want 5 years of not having to prove I'm a human being. Make me have to show up to a post office if it comes to it. Assuming those are still around in 5 years.

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:31:59 GMT

New rss.chat feature: It now supports automatic feed discovery, so you can subscribe to any html page on the site in a compatible feed reader. I tested it in FeedLand and NetNewsWire and it works.

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:30:44 GMT

It was very much a Buddhist class. The teacher was a middle-aged man from Iowa, very diminutive in stature but the power to clear things up, amazing. Fair to say that changed my life and feelings about myself, and makes me more of a spectator in my movie than being the main character.

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:42:44 GMT

The BB Edit and Fetch icons will be forever embedded in my heart

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:41:32 GMT

That works with a lot of Buddhist teachings (from lojong, to tonglen to “feeding the demons’) and the psychotherapeutic modes in shadow work, gestalt, “changing chairs”). There is something very powerful about giving the “demons” what they want, or facing them and giving the younger version the adult presence. I always marvel how a small bit of technique can upgrade a mind so it’s hard to act in (never really be bothered again by) the old ways.

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:38:32 GMT

Thanks, always a pleasure to see the work. Looking forward to testing & musing.

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 10:51:29 GMT

John, nice to see you here! 👍

My Story In Four Parts

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 04:50:29 GMT

I began publishing on the web with BB Edit, the FTP client Fetch, and a prayer.

In 2002, I used Radio Userland to say hello to the world and have fun.

In 2008, I put my energies into online communities - social networking, forums, and virtual worlds.

But, my efforts did not belong to me.

I'm back on my blog using self-hosted WordPress. I miss the community aspects I had found, so here I am trying RSS.Chat.

Can I use this for more writing than messaging? Maybe this post will show me.

(Clearly, my limation is with Markdown and not this platform.)

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 04:26:30 GMT

All this chat about RSS is making me think back to when I first found out about it & how excited I was. I assumed everybody would have a blog and read others via RSS.

In 2005 I started a podcast with my class of 10 year olds. They had great fun and, I believe learned a lot. Not having a much of an understanding of how to do this I wrote and updated the RSS feed by hand. I then had a php file that used the feed to create the webpage. I had very little understanding of php (still do not) but it worked.

I remember, in 2006, being at an educational conference in Edinburgh. I ended up talking to the keynote speaker on a bus on the way to drinks. He asked me where I thought the technology might be going. I explained my idea that an iPod or similar device could allow audio comments, this would somehow be uploaded, somewhere, they would become linked in some sort of sub element of the episode in the RSS feed with a time stamp. When you listened to the podcast there would be a wee audio alert when you got to a comment. You could press a button on your iPod if you wanted to pause the episode and listen to the comment.

Podcasting was then a much smaller and simpler thing. I did not imagine we would have podcast that were commercial with millions of listeners.

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 03:20:22 GMT

If you have a website, if you don't have a WAF (web application firewall), you've basically committed malpractice. But that's incredible, right? Automated traffic can just take down your website or crawl it and duplicate it and easily re-publish it, which is actually better than when it brings down websites. Again, you now have to add software to keep things running.

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 03:16:14 GMT

I mean, it's embarrassing right? We have this thing that we almost universally think is awesome, the web, but we have to have a Swiss Army Knife of extensions to install and tweak just to have a tolerable experience? Sites that tell you to turn off the extension that you installed to hide ads, to show the ads, so that you can read the article?

It's astonishing that you have to add software (browser extensions) to simplify things. "Oh yeah, just get an ad blocker." What? I have to add complexity so that I can get simplicity?

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 01:20:51 GMT

Or at least it didn't in the old version we're using. But it's so strange: you can do this in the attachments section, just not in the comments. It's so obvious to add support for this in both.

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 01:19:32 GMT

Clicking on an image thumbnail to enlarge it in a comment thread is pretty much table-stakes for any bug tracking software. So naturally, Jira doesn't support it.

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 22:14:12 GMT

And now - 'avec logo' - much improved, IMHO.

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 21:56:37 GMT

Done.

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 21:42:23 GMT

Logging on to demo.rss.chat and interested to see where it all goes.

I added rss.chat into NetNewsWire - might add this one as well.

AGI

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 20:33:49 GMT

“I am tormented, or tantalized, by the sense that I am almost in view of something that is at the limit of my comprehension.”

— Neal Stephenson’s Anathem (pg 543)

“Hide your iPod in a gutted Zune case

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 20:18:16 GMT

“You made a smart choice in choosing an iPod. And now you can protect it from theft and still enjoy using it in public with the new Hide-a-Pod anti-theft case.” (2007)

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 17:58:43 GMT

There is one I know of. Inkwell, by micro.blog, will allow you to post to Micro.blog.

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 17:00:23 GMT

Thanks for clearing that up, Dave. Seeing what's happening here just makes me think of all kinds of stuff, but I suppose that was the idea! 😃

I am fully aware of WordLand. I keep a watchful eye on everything you do, Dave. I have since 2001 when I found DaveNet and Scripting News.

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 17:00:16 GMT

Dumb question but are there any apps which combine both rss reading and writing? I can’t find any… 🤷‍♂️

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:51:52 GMT

Replying to myself! 🤣

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:51:20 GMT

Still interesting…

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:11:21 GMT

It turned out that way, didn't it. ;-)

Funny thing is at the time Microsoft had a product that was meant to compete with Apple's iPod, called Zune, and it wasn't getting in there. I went there and proposed we turn it into a podcasting platform. They never responded.

Lots of examples of things like that. They needed to pivot, turn the corner, realize there was another market they could get at that Apple couldn't because Apple viewed audio as valuable and podcasting says "one listen and throw it out." There really was a niche there back then. Now, it would never go over, because the installed base.

Blogging and AI

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 15:37:39 GMT

"Before, the blog stored what you had seen. Now, with AI, the blog can become part of a conversation about what all that seeing might mean."

Dave Winer on Podcasting (2005)

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:40:21 GMT

“In less than six months, more than 2,000 podcasters have sprung up. Eventually an iPod-like device will have a subscription capability built in so you won’t even need to be tethered to a computer. It’s not hard to imagine an iPod with WiFi capabilities that could become a radio with no geographic limits.”

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:34:00 GMT

Also that's something micro.blog does really well.

I support what Manton has done there.

We have to work together to build the web, we can't do it by all trying to work with the BigCo's. They have other (understandable) motives.

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:32:16 GMT

We thought about doing that and decided not to.

Just wrote a post about that on scripting.

Don't think of this as a product Rob. Think about features you want in other people's products. Think of this as a source of feeds, not a destination for them.

I have a whole other product for that called FeedLand, btw. ;-)

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:03:26 GMT

I was just thinking how amazing it'll be once we can aggregate our own RSS into this chat and it's transparent to everyone. My goodness that'll be amazing.

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:57:56 GMT

I don't do any of the shopping, other than clicking a bunch to get the meal kit orders scheduled weeks in advance. I can't stand shopping, for anything, really. All parts of the process are not good, and I don't even like online shopping that much. Meal kits got me into cooking about 10 years ago, and I continue to marvel at how good the meals I make are (some being bland, but none ever being bad). Every now and then I'll make something from scratch, but months and months will go by. I thought about what it would take to level up, and it would have to be an in-person course.

About a year ago, maybe longer, I gave up using my oven for anything other than storage. It's either air frying for roasting or picking an alternative method to cook something. I don't make any desserts or anything like that. I haven't used my slow cooker in years, and I only use my Instant Pot for making rice (it's kind of awesome, though overpriced if I'm just using it for one function).

It feels like my instincts are good after the amount of experience I have now. The recipes I have seem to want me to overcook things, so I only do the bare minimum in terms of time, then let other processes do the cooking. Meat cooks when the sauce it's in is simmering, right? Stuff like that.

The recipes also call for "While [x] is cooking, do [y]" but I can't multitask, so I do all of my cooking sequentially. Meals take about an hour to make, which feels like too long. I've experienced joy when cooking with people, and it really does halve the time. I miss that about cohabitating with somebody.

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:21:41 GMT

I've been eating an apple either for breakfast or as a snack for over a year now, mainly as a way to introduce fruit to my diet (otherwise it would be absent). I couldn't tell you that I feel better as a result, or that I'm measurably healthier, or even that I feel like I've eaten something afterwards. That's one of the points of snacks, is it not? To not be hungry for a little while? Since there's no real downsides, and it really is healthy, I'll keep doing it.

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 11:39:12 GMT

A little test drive

thank you

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 10:26:47 GMT

I find it both exciting and confusing to be thrilled about the advent of agentic software development (you can make your own perfect software if you want) as well as a resurgence of this social network through classic protocols like RSS. Somehow it doesn't compute in my head yet it does....

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 05:59:30 GMT

I'm an RSS enthusiast: with Claude's help I built Mytis, a self-hosted chat web app where every conversation is an RSS 2.0 feed (Node.js + embedded SQLite, behind Authentik).
Could Mytis post into demo.rss.chat — and what would it take on my side?
Prototype, a conversation re-emitted in your source: namespace: https://sofab.ch/public/outbound-rss/rss-chat/mytis-sample.xml

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 03:14:05 GMT

Writing is painful for some people. A lot of people! And just because you do it a lot, it doesn't mean you're good at it.

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 02:03:23 GMT

pourquoi pas? you can meet people at bars, book readings, yoga, aquafit, hiking club so many irl places that don't require a computer

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 02:02:36 GMT

u do u. folks should not shame others!

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 01:53:56 GMT

butterflies and zebras and moonbeams ....fly on little wing

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 01:52:11 GMT

i was there, the good ole days :-)

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 01:51:02 GMT

I'm actually thinking of leaving computing (outside of work) but that would be a big sacrifice, since a lot of wondrous things (movies, TV shows, music, trying to meet possible mates) require a computer these days.

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 01:46:17 GMT

Butterflies, yes!

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 01:39:55 GMT

I couldn't do it for work, at least not right away, but I'm contemplating leaving the web. Despite best efforts of those who are trying to save it, the web sucks. I almost think that that if was once worth saving, it's not anymore. It's too hostile an environment for gentle people, and I don't want to be anywhere where I have to grow a thick skin or have to dismiss the garbage that pops and tries to distract me from whatever I set out to do.

There's cozy corners of the web, but the people in those cozy corners only ever talk about how cozy it is there. They never talk about plants or swimming or lovemaking or settling disputes. It's only just about how great their corner of the web is. Boring.

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 01:29:59 GMT

How long can you go without your smartphone? As in, leave the house without it and not need it? I've been trying little experiments like going for an hour-long walk, or going to the pool, and not bringing my iPhone with me. I don't recommend it for people who are somebody else's emergency contact, or if you need it to live.

For context, I'm a late-forties white male who lives in the middle of a large North American city that's extremely safe. I think I'd need it if I want ride on the local bikeshare, because I can't find the card for it, and that may not even work anymore. Maybe I only need a credit card? I'd miss playing music or listening to a podcast or audiobook on longer walks.

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:05:50 GMT

I would also say it's easy to do this if it's not your money you're spending. 😜

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:01:18 GMT

The beauty of having access to coding agents is that you get to create a tool shaped exactly to the problem you're trying to solve. I'm working with some data in a PostgreSQL DB that has a JSONB column. This introduces problems in a typical client: either because only the first few characters of a multi-KB JSON structure is rendered, or the full JSON structure is rendered and it blows out the size of the table.

So I asked Claude Code to make a client that would open the value of JSONB columns in a separate window, nicely formatted and syntax highlighted. I'm using it right now and it's been a godsend. It's hard justifying putting in the time to build this manually for a project that will probably only last a month or so. But asking the agent to do it in a day? Not a problem.

"Field notes from first contact with a new medium"

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:34:30 GMT

“A blog used to be a place where you published what you noticed. Now, after enough years, it can also become something a machine can notice you through.”

Milton (the personal AI agent of a friend) read all 6,500 of my blog posts.

Gnomedex 5 (2005)

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:26:37 GMT

Presenters at this year’s conference include: Adam Curry, Dave Winer, Steve Gillmor, Steve Rubel, Robert Scoble, Marc Canter, John Battelle, Dan Gillmor, and others. Okay, this is the kind of stuff that interests me. If sitting in a conference room for three days listening to people talk about blogging and podasting and RSS and shit like that doesn’t sound like any fun to you… you can start to understand why your idea of a vacation doesn’t make me clap my little hands.

PS: You had to be there.

Dave Winer's Comment Guidelines (2017)

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:15:19 GMT

Not a reference to anything I've seen here. Just looking for stuff to share as I explore. I've been saving DW wisdom for twenty years. Oh, here is a link to the guidelines.

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 21:59:33 GMT

Given the good weather there are quite a lot of butterflies around this week. This looks like quite an old one that has been in the wars, black faded and very ragged. I wonder what tales it could tell. My butterfly by month page is building nicely.

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 21:49:52 GMT

Hello. Heard about this from Manton Reece too and I got curious. We'll see what happens when I click "Publish".

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 21:14:25 GMT

Heard about this from Manton Reece. Watching with interest.

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 19:26:54 GMT

Hello world!
Love the look of this already.

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 19:25:08 GMT

Heh. It's true.

Here's the emancipation proclamation.

https://textcasting.org

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 19:24:20 GMT

Frank, see the wedge next to the comment icon?

If you flick that down, you see the responses to the post.

If they have responses, you can flick them too.

A Year of AquaFit and Six Months of Swimming Lessons

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:53:37 GMT

(This is an uncorrected draft of a blog post going out tomorrow.)

A friend's wife suggested, about 10 years now, and I consider AquaFit for physical activity. That was during my running phase, so I didn't outride reject it if maybe keep it as an option along with yoga.

Fast-forward a decade, and a move across the country later, I started living in a neighbourhood that had a YMCA being built, one that would be a few years behind schedule. On July 16th, 2025, the second day it was open, I took my first class. We were all facing towards the shallow end, and I, not knowing too much about where to to, took the shallow end. At 6'3", I stuck out of the water a bit, but had a great workout, a gentle and low-impact aerobic workout that had elements of strengthening. Perfect! After the next few classes, we switched to facing the sides (perpecticular to either the shallow or deep ends). Since then, I am in the middle, with just enough water to cover my torso with the ability to touch the bottom of my feed. A month in, I noticed the impact already: Stronger arms and an earlier rise than I normally would to make the 8 AM classes. I'm now part of the 8 AM crew's group chat, and we have coffee every now and then and see each other on the street. It's one of 3 neighbourhood groups I'm part of, the other being the neighbourhood association and a friend group that grew out of that.

Over the summer, in my hometown of Courtenay, I took to swimming in the river, telling my dad that I'm leaving my phone at home, and that I'd be back in an hour, and would just dry off on the way back. That experience was so good, but my swimming so obviously degraded that, in the new year, I started taking swimming lessons. I decided to take "intermediate" lessons since I figured I knew how to swim already, but needed bolstering of my technique. What I didn't know that I needed was a lot of work on breathing and endurance. Since then, I'm now in my third "semester" of that lessons group. I'm close to feeling confident in the front crawl (commonly known as freestyle), somewhat confident that I know what I'm doing with the back crawl (backstroke), and have the beginnings of a breast stroke (with a long way to go).

That gave me the idea to do training in basketball, my first love in sports. More on that if I end up going through with that.

What I hope by talking about it is that others will think of doing it, too. I tried to tell as many men I know that they should come to my Yoga for Stiff Men class, which was very similar to the Yoga4StiffPeople™ (originally Yoga4StiffGuys) that I love so much when I lived in Vancouver. It seems to have taken off quite a bit since I left (good!) and is not much of a thing here in Toronto. (It was later re-branded as Stretch + Strength without changing the routine because not enough men were signing up. I did what I could!) I have heard from my 8 AM AquaFit crew that they're considering lessons (yes!) and that one is taking the "free lessons" the lifeguards teach when they're bored. Amazing!

If you did something in your youth, and you miss doing it, and you want to be better at it so that you can enjoy it again, look up whether there's lessons. The amount of shame in my swimming lessons group is very low. Everybody has to introduce themselves at the start of lessons and why they're there, and there's always two people who want the same thing. One woman in my current group said the same thing I did, that she enjoyed swimming but was gassed after a lap or two. Everybody else had different reasons, but everybody else had at least one other person in the group who had the same goals.

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:22:53 GMT

Huh, my pasted post failed. Will this work? Let's find out!

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:10:09 GMT

Besides everything in rss.chat being based on open standards that don't lock up data, another main "feature" that I see is no algorithmic filtering, just a reverse chronologic presentation of posts as back in the day when social networks first started.

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:35:54 GMT

Cool! Like that I can back and edit an entry.

Hello demo rss.chat users

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:33:11 GMT

I enjoy trying new things, particularly while on coffee shops I have never visted before in a town (Fort Collins, CO) that I have only visited only a handful number of times.

I see how this could be useful to host one's own online community.

A thought... I think it would be nice if there was a "default" view setting that put messages with replies in a threaded view. I think this would be an improvement over how other apps present message timelines.

Trying something new

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:23:53 GMT

Left Twitter years ago, and not crazy about BlueSky. Let's see if we can re-evolve together

Titles?

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:19:08 GMT

And formatting?!

It's already better than Twitter! 🤣

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:40:09 GMT

A thought that occurs to me a lot while living alone in a small apartment: I'm the only person responsible for myself. It comes up when I hear about men in straight cohabitating couples do less than half of the housework. I'm not here to deny that. I'm here to say that people who live alone do all of the housework. I do all of the cooking, all of the dishes, all of the tidying up, all of the cleaning of surfaces, all of the laundry, and most of the maintenance.

(I did hire a handyman for 4 hours to do some random things like help remove my stuck ceiling light covers [which I had to finally accept was a two-person operation], install a light switch and switch the direction of the door on my fridge. Money well spent! I do also hire a cleaner to do the surfaces once in a blue moon [before every long trip so that I come back to a clean abode].)

Again, this doesn't deny or erase a truth about how much men do around the house when they live with others. I'll tap that sign again if you bring it up.

I resent some of it, yeah. It's not about having to do it in the first place (OK, yes it is), but doing exactly half of the housework would be a measurable improvement in my life. At least I don't mind it more often than I resent it. After all, it's nice to do something that doesn't require a lot of brain energy. And it's the time I can listen to a podcast or an audiobook (not possible for me while having to think). And whenever I think "I have nobody to bring home, so why am I doing this?" I try to remember that the answer is "I bring myself home almost every day."

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:36:50 GMT

We just simplified the way feeds are stored.

The server doesn't have to create a space on S3, we handle it all in our server.

This was the biggest stumbling block in setting up demo.rss.chat -- and I knew what I was doing.

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:31:53 GMT

RSS to the rescue!

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:30:45 GMT

Very interesting concept here will be curious to see how it plays out as well.

Title

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:28:31 GMT

Testing rss.chat to see what it's about.

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:45:33 GMT

Yep. Checks out.

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:43:25 GMT

So, what's all this then?!

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:40:58 GMT

Testing 1,2,3...

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:22:41 GMT

thanks for giving us a sandbox to play in!

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:20:38 GMT

lol the usual :-)

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 13:04:32 GMT

Not as-is, if they add a couple of features to their RSS feeds, and treat comments as blog posts with their own permalinks, then yes, it can.

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 13:03:07 GMT

I took a class in dehypnotherapy a long time ago, and there was a meditation exercise where the class leader told us to think about someone who hurt you as a kid. My father, who drank a lot, was who I thought of. Now respond to what they did to hurt you as part of the meditation.

So while I was breathing I visualized this -- I took a plate of spaghetti and mushed it around on his face. Then I put him in the tiny basement bathroom we had in our house, closed the door and said "now I want you to think about this young man!" That's when the fantasy ended.

By the end of the workshop we would address the hurtful adult as an adult would -- "I love David very much," I would say to my father, "and I want you to be nice to him."

The point being first find your inner adult and eventually respond like a responsible loving adult that my father should have been.

Once I learned that technique, I don't have much trouble with letting bad behavior stop me from being true to myself.

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:41:23 GMT

Sounds like a job for an agent, “keep an eye on posts and assess against guidelines”.

I get that you might not want to repeat the many missteps of Social Media 1.0. And adding a ‘report’/‘block’ feature might feel like the beginning of a road nobody here (your friends and extended friends) wants to travel.

I’m guessing any moderation would be at the app level as the ultimate source of truth is what’s in the various RSS feeds? So… a block is not a block if someone can find it on the .rss? Although people can edit anytime, right?

So many cans, so many many worms.

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:26:41 GMT

Hey Dave, thanks for your perpetual thought Leadership! Your daily email is a constant source of encouragement and inspiration!

I look forward to thinking more about RSS.chat and Claude.

Keep on trucking!

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 10:46:18 GMT

If you need to “let go” of a feeling or an unwanted thought, try visualizing it. What works often enough for me is taking a thought or feeling, and imagining putting it on a raft that’s floating on a river and watching, in my mind, the river take the raft away. If the raft comes back, so be it. But it usually doesn’t.

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 10:38:20 GMT

I’m sad the feeds don’t work, iPad OS Safari doesn’t like non secure urls

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 10:10:38 GMT

Hello World

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 08:44:23 GMT

Can my WordPress site be an RSS server for RSS chat? People following me on rss chat respond and it shows up in the comments of my website.

I am still only half-way there with the

ActivityPub

. Is rss.chat aiming at the same space?

I get the RSS part, and with the feed I can do many things, but how do I get my friends/followers from other networks to find my 'new' feed? Is this the place to explore with additional apps/plugins

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 08:35:58 GMT

I agree ... still trying to figure out the use cases ...

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 08:33:29 GMT

This is cool. Not yet there to wrap my head around it though.

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 08:32:23 GMT

Interesting…

Hello ...

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 08:22:32 GMT

World / RSS / Chat / there / here ... now!

me 1st post

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 08:06:51 GMT

Who is it who
Who is it who
Who is it who
Who is it

What is it
What is it
What is it
What is it

Oh...Oh baby it's you!!

https://youtu.be/H-BDm4VXVvY

Let's Play!

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 07:55:24 GMT

Playing around, trying a heading, some formatting, and a link.

And I can edit this :)

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 07:27:03 GMT

PS: Now it works! thanks again @dave

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 07:25:24 GMT

Thanks @dave for opening this up! one question: why does the "Feed" link pull a 404? would be nice to see the feed, if it's no trouble for you to turn it on.

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 07:03:15 GMT

Hello, Just arrived here, very interested to see how this goes. All looks very nice, familiar from Dave’s other recent pieces. Lots of things to think about…