I went to selfh.st because someone posted a link to a github repo that had some tracking appended to the URL (?ref=selfh.st
). OK your marketing worked on me I’m a mark.
I still have an aversion to this kind of tracking. Maybe considering how old-fashioned it it compared to the undetectable and nearly impossible to evade tracking methods currently deployed, that’s wrong. Maybe this is just charming and quaint.
Disregarding the above, I liked the site enough to subscribe to their RSS feed selfh.st/rss/. Well that was pointless, as there is no content in the feed. Each entry like this:
Self-hosted news, updates, launches, and content for the week ending Friday, August 1, 2025
Continue reading on selfh.st…
I kind of expect a meaningful RSS feed these days. It sign of participating in the Libre internet.
Workaround: I have used Kill the Newsletter! (which kicks ass) to convert the email newsletter to an Atom feed which appears to work. Got the confirmation email, now need to wait for a post to be made.
What do you all think?
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Link tracking: yay or nay?
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Placeholder RSS: Rude or acceptable?
paradox2011@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Hmm, I’m subscribed to their RSS feed and I get full articles out of each post 🤷
Bjornir@programming.dev 1 day ago
Have you checked recently ? I did get the full articles until 2 or 3 months ago and now it’s the garbage described above. I am also using feeder.
They even replaced older posts that were complete with the garbage, but if I go far back enough I still have the complete version of older posts.
paradox2011@lemmy.ml 23 hours ago
Try going to the settings for the specific feed and toggle on “fetch full articles by default.” I tried turning that off on mine and I got the same thing that your describing. Turned it back on and back to business as usual. Image