so i was circling back trying out RSS using an an appleTV app that lets me browse mastodon, bluesky, and rss in general — but of course only those accounts set to public — I wonder, something made me think about this feature, and because I was just refreshing on enshittification explained — what sets privacy apart from enshittification? Cory Doctorow @pluralisticCory Doctorow applies his term while expanding on a think about that computers are Turing-complete universal von Neumann machines — they can do it all — but the manufacturers crap their products down with stuff that prevent their capability — The way that the RSS reader on my appleTV was not able to read my mastodon, has likeness to that enshittification basic ( btw Corey Doctorow explain enshittification as more, check it out… ) because the way that AI chat interfaces are able to get more information on a mastodon account than a RSS reader (I don’t know how @betamagic made their app, as it is not opensouce? I only expect it to read RSS as inteded by mastodon @GargronEugen Rochko )

but of course, It is perhaps not a bad thing that privacy is respected after all? — but this very alignment of privacy and enshittification is curious

the setting to make a profile public is sort of burried under the account settings on your mastodon account

I have intentionally not set it to public as I am learning the fediverse — I have thought about hosting my own instance, and I think that I soon will — a combination of Proxmox, NixOS, coolify, yunohost…
I intend to have ghost blog thing, as they are working on implementing activitypub & Writer @ia — i want to see how good they have made the experience to publish from the app