Wired:
The modern web contains no shortage of horrors, from ubiquitous ad trackers to all-consuming platforms to YouTube comments, generally. Unfortunately, there’s no panacea for what ails this internet we’ve built. But anyone weary of black-box algorithms controlling what you see online at least has a respite, one that’s been there all along but has often gone ignored. Tired of Twitter? Facebook fatigued? It’s time to head back to RSS.
I don’t know if it’s time for a revival but I still use RSS as a fast, efficient way to get through a lot of news very quickly.
Where’s the Like button? ?
I still follow Apple, Nvidia, and a tiny handful of others, via RSS (the ‘RSS Bot’ MAS app works really well). Those who have stopped offering RSS, that’s too bad. How’s that Facebook algorithm working out for you?
I read mostly through my RSS (Feedly through Reeder)…I rarely visit sites directly, unless it’s something that comes through twitter.
I never stopped using it. It’s how I get 90% of my news.
Same here except no twitter, just Feedly and reeder which is how I saw this post.
As in I got to here via RSS. Feedly is awesome…