good article by Cory Doctorow ( @pluralistic ) on using #RSS and generally making the web bearable (with some historical context)

https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/07/reader-mode/

(And I indeed read Doctorow's blog post on using RSS via my rss backend #Miniflux, using the wonderful Capyreader app (@_jocmp ) as the frontends on Android/GrapheneOS - and indeed on a black background with white text in a pleasant font (Vollkorn - http://vollkorn-typeface.com/ - one of Capyreader's built in options).

Alt...

mobile phone screenshot of reading the Doctorow post on RSS in Capyreader with white text (Vollkorn) on a black background, on the section discussing why such things are good

new tomo dev .plan update

tomo is dead: long live tomo

a month away from tomo gave me time to think about why the project stalled out for such a long time, and where it could go now.

tldr: tomo is getting a reboot as shard-based federated discussion forum. think of each shard like running your own BBS, except that it's linked with every other BBS on the network if you want it to be, with full privacy controls for each forum/topic.

and no more NNTP. it was causing more heartache than it was worth, while adding almost nothing.

read more here (RSS friendly):

https://tomodori.net/#2026-03-04

#fediverse #tomo #bbs #rss #nntp

#ocular #lua #rss #smallweb #indieweb

https://romanzolotarev.com/pub/hi

becomes

https://romanzolotarev.com/pub/hi.rss

how cool is that? 😎

• 12 posts
• 60 following
• over 9000 files (sic!)

$ du -hd0 /var/snac && find /var/snac | wc -l
61.8M	/var/snac
    9532
$

$ curl -s https://romanzolotarev.com/pub/hi.rss | wc -c
    9999