In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information
In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information
This article extols the virtues of RSS (Really Simple Syndication) as a user-controlled alternative to the algorithmic feeds of social media. The author shares personal frustrations with social platforms' content distribution and details their current RSS workflow, emphasizing the ability to curate information, categorize interests, and enjoy a distraction-free reading experience. It concludes with practical tips for finding feeds, using aggregators, and managing a personalized information stream.
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RSS has it's fair share of problems both on the technical fronts and the user interface fronts. but being a power level of control might just be worth it.
it's worth noting that social media and private portals are large impediments to how people "scroll". however, there exist solutions to both (mastodon has rss feeds and there exist private rss feeds with passwords). they just lack large adoption.
i tend to see a good number of handful of articles extolling the virtues of RSS for users but we will need the same targeted at information portals to round it out.
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