RSS vs Algorithms: Taking Back Your News Feed
Try to find an article you saw on social media yesterday. Scroll past promoted posts, engagement bait, and content from accounts you don’t follow. Five minutes later, you’ve consumed a dozen things you didn’t need and still haven’t found what you were looking for. This is the daily reality for anyone who depends on social media for professional information. Journalists chasing source material, researchers tracking developments in their field, analysts monitoring industry shifts — all forced to sift through feeds designed to maximize time-on-app rather than deliver the information they actually need. There’s a better way, and it’s been around since 1999. RSS — Really Simple Syndication — offers a chronological, unfiltered, user-controlled alternative to the algorithmic feeds that…
