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Mike Shea

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14808 total appearances

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The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse – Lazy RPG Talk Show

So and you get to decide if you want to stay subscribed to whichever ones you want to subscribe to. But you can absolutely use that. It's called an OPML file. And what this does is something that you don't get with all of those giant and shitified platforms. Guess what I can't do?

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse – Lazy RPG Talk Show

So and you get to decide if you want to stay subscribed to whichever ones you want to subscribe to. But you can absolutely use that. It's called an OPML file. And what this does is something that you don't get with all of those giant and shitified platforms. Guess what I can't do?

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse – Lazy RPG Talk Show

So and you get to decide if you want to stay subscribed to whichever ones you want to subscribe to. But you can absolutely use that. It's called an OPML file. And what this does is something that you don't get with all of those giant and shitified platforms. Guess what I can't do?

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse – Lazy RPG Talk Show

I can't download all of the YouTube channels that I subscribe to, take that and give it to somebody else and they can import it and follow all the same ones. You can't do that. Also, like it's all side YouTube. So I can't say like, oh, I actually want to include other subscriptions from other services. You can't do that too. Blogs, RSS feeds, OPML files, you can't.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse – Lazy RPG Talk Show

I can't download all of the YouTube channels that I subscribe to, take that and give it to somebody else and they can import it and follow all the same ones. You can't do that. Also, like it's all side YouTube. So I can't say like, oh, I actually want to include other subscriptions from other services. You can't do that too. Blogs, RSS feeds, OPML files, you can't.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse – Lazy RPG Talk Show

I can't download all of the YouTube channels that I subscribe to, take that and give it to somebody else and they can import it and follow all the same ones. You can't do that. Also, like it's all side YouTube. So I can't say like, oh, I actually want to include other subscriptions from other services. You can't do that too. Blogs, RSS feeds, OPML files, you can't.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse – Lazy RPG Talk Show

This is all crazy technology stuff, right? And people are like, ah, I can't be bothered. I don't know what that is. If you're gonna fight against giant and shitified corporations, you're gonna have to learn some of this stuff. And it doesn't mean it's easy, right? It means, God forbid, you go to Wikipedia and look up what an OPML file is. It doesn't mean you have to learn how to code.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse – Lazy RPG Talk Show

This is all crazy technology stuff, right? And people are like, ah, I can't be bothered. I don't know what that is. If you're gonna fight against giant and shitified corporations, you're gonna have to learn some of this stuff. And it doesn't mean it's easy, right? It means, God forbid, you go to Wikipedia and look up what an OPML file is. It doesn't mean you have to learn how to code.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse – Lazy RPG Talk Show

This is all crazy technology stuff, right? And people are like, ah, I can't be bothered. I don't know what that is. If you're gonna fight against giant and shitified corporations, you're gonna have to learn some of this stuff. And it doesn't mean it's easy, right? It means, God forbid, you go to Wikipedia and look up what an OPML file is. It doesn't mean you have to learn how to code.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse – Lazy RPG Talk Show

It means you need to know, ah, this is how I import this. This is a file that I can export from one service and import into another service in order to move all of the blogs that I follow. I'll give a fantastic example. So I used Feedly for a long time. Feedly is a RSS, online RSS tool where you can subscribe to different feeds.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse – Lazy RPG Talk Show

It means you need to know, ah, this is how I import this. This is a file that I can export from one service and import into another service in order to move all of the blogs that I follow. I'll give a fantastic example. So I used Feedly for a long time. Feedly is a RSS, online RSS tool where you can subscribe to different feeds.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse – Lazy RPG Talk Show

It means you need to know, ah, this is how I import this. This is a file that I can export from one service and import into another service in order to move all of the blogs that I follow. I'll give a fantastic example. So I used Feedly for a long time. Feedly is a RSS, online RSS tool where you can subscribe to different feeds.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse – Lazy RPG Talk Show

For example, you can see here, I have my RPGs lists over here and it shows all of the different RPGs. I hate this one. I want to change my layout to just title, right? So that's, I don't like that either, but I like that. Magazine view, article view. Let's try article view. Oh, I don't like that. Cards view. No, I don't like that. We've got a title interview, right?

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse – Lazy RPG Talk Show

For example, you can see here, I have my RPGs lists over here and it shows all of the different RPGs. I hate this one. I want to change my layout to just title, right? So that's, I don't like that either, but I like that. Magazine view, article view. Let's try article view. Oh, I don't like that. Cards view. No, I don't like that. We've got a title interview, right?

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse – Lazy RPG Talk Show

For example, you can see here, I have my RPGs lists over here and it shows all of the different RPGs. I hate this one. I want to change my layout to just title, right? So that's, I don't like that either, but I like that. Magazine view, article view. Let's try article view. Oh, I don't like that. Cards view. No, I don't like that. We've got a title interview, right?

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse – Lazy RPG Talk Show

These are all of the different new articles that have shown up on the RSS feeds. I wasn't crazy about Feedly because they're doing all this new AI stuff in there. And I'm not really into like, it's not even that I'm like directly against any kind of AI stuff, like summarizing articles or telling me like, hey, today, these are some of the top topics.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse – Lazy RPG Talk Show

These are all of the different new articles that have shown up on the RSS feeds. I wasn't crazy about Feedly because they're doing all this new AI stuff in there. And I'm not really into like, it's not even that I'm like directly against any kind of AI stuff, like summarizing articles or telling me like, hey, today, these are some of the top topics.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse – Lazy RPG Talk Show

These are all of the different new articles that have shown up on the RSS feeds. I wasn't crazy about Feedly because they're doing all this new AI stuff in there. And I'm not really into like, it's not even that I'm like directly against any kind of AI stuff, like summarizing articles or telling me like, hey, today, these are some of the top topics.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse – Lazy RPG Talk Show

Although it's wrong as often as it's right on a lot of that stuff. But it also feels like they're trying to court tech bros. And I worry about what it's like for a company to support tech bros and stuff like that, going to that realm. So I was like, well, you know what? I want to move to a different platform.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse – Lazy RPG Talk Show

Although it's wrong as often as it's right on a lot of that stuff. But it also feels like they're trying to court tech bros. And I worry about what it's like for a company to support tech bros and stuff like that, going to that realm. So I was like, well, you know what? I want to move to a different platform.