I managed to recover a list of my RSS subscriptions, which was gone together with my server in 2020. A good friend of mine powered up the storage and I extracted an old backup, which luckily includes MySQL data directory. Finally I got my precious list of feeds back!
Yesterday I spent hours importing it, and OMFG the Internet has changed so much since 2020.
Lots of resources are just gone. Small blogs I used to read now have their domain name on sale. A big project I was involved with is now closed. One project I used to believe in turned out to be a scam, but they try to cover it up and the website is just a placeholder nowadays.
Dilbert comics is gone. Mr. Lovenstein no longer has a feed. The same is true for several other web comics.
The Russian segment of the internet (a.k.a. runet) is pretty much devastated. Lots of local activist movements are no longer there. The biggest IT media Habr.com is overtaken by corporations doing their SMM. Even in pop science news aggregators there are occasional unjustified praises to Russian weapons and condemning of Ukrainian/NATO's. The online Hacker journal publishes ads of Astra Linux 🤦
In all this despair, I was pretty happy to find that some projects I loved are doing amazingly well, most of them TTRPG-related.
Not sure what's the take away here, but at least praise the Internet Archive 🤷♂️
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