Hate “The Algorithm?” RSS Is One of the Tools You’ve Been Looking For
A piece making the case for RSS as a practical alternative to algorithm-driven feeds argues that the decades-old syndication format lets people subscribe directly to content sources and read on their own terms, without a platform deciding what surfaces and when.
Why this matters: Every major social platform controls what you see based on what keeps you engaged, not what you actually wanted. That is not a design accident. RSS sidesteps that entirely. You pick the sources, you get the posts, no one is optimizing your attention in the background. It will not replace everything, but for news and blogs it hands the feed back to you. The fact that this tool has existed for twenty years and most people do not know it exists says something about how thoroughly platforms have buried the alternatives.
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