Post-Platform Digital Publishing workshop at 39C3

We hosted a workshop on the first, second and the fourth days of 2025 Chaos Communication Congress, 39C3. We talked about digital publishing methods that operate independently of big tech platforms and products, and looked at the examples of RSS (.xml) files for personal websites, blogs, as an extended online publishing method. We also discussed pirate publishing forms, both online and offline.

One of the ideas we had during the workshop was using RSS feeds, even when you don't have a website associated with that specific feed. For example, you can create multiple RSS feeds using the .xml file example here. One of those feed could have actual links to the things you publish on your site. But you could also have other, more specific feeds, for other things you want to publish. This could be your articles, similar to a newsletter or Substack, which you want to deliver to people who are subscribed to your feed. Since you can put any links to the RSS feed, you can treat the <link> element as a placeholder, for example, entering the homepage URL of your website.