Minimal peasant leaf file
Peasants are usually lazy, so their text feed can be too. Example of lazy peasant minimal leaf file:
https://unstory.eu/leaf.txt
https://unstory.eu/ unstory
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https://unstory.eu/src/xqj.txt
https://unstory.eu/xqj/
---
https://unstory.eu/src/urd.txt
https://unstory.eu/urd/
Machine knows the domain, site name and the path for all sources. Any other details are served in individual article files. URL of the website is optional. Content can be shared just over the leaf.
When a peasant writes a new article about his farm and new political view he adds those 2 lines with a separator. The reader checks the source file from the first line if new article is there. Then crawls it.
Lazy minimal source of peasant's article:
https://unstory.eu/src/xqj.txt
https://unstory.eu/xqj/
2026-06-17
# Web feed without brackets
20 pages of postmortem. Markdown allowed.
That's it. First line tells the source of this file, the second is optional web URL, and the third is optional date. The rest is article. No other information is needed. Date is mostly pointless, it can be part of the article if it's important. Article source is unique. Reader asks itself if it has already. For ordering across feeds, date on the third line can do the job.
Feed reader is just something that can get a file over HTTP and a markdown viewer (separate program or web browser extension). Easy life for a peasant, brutally simple for a machine.