Re:RSS feeds or blogs?

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Loren put out an interesting post on why he prefers not to use an RSS reader: […] I did a post a few weeks back about why I’d actually prefer if you read my posts in RSS than the website itself.

I’m somewhere between the first two blog posts. My flow for news consumption, in short, is see in RSS reader -> send anything longer than a couple of paragraphs to my e-reader for comfortable reading. For the shortest posts, I often click just to give people a view (if they have analytics) and check if…

Re:Elevating my RSS feed

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This made me happy. And yes, I did read it on my RSS feed reader.

What makes RSS better than social timelines? – Tracy Durnell

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Tracy Durnell (tracydurnell.com)

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I’m bored of what I call “the timeline era”. Scanning an unending stream of disconnected posts for topics of interest is no longer fun, I prefer deciding what to read based on titles, or topic-based discussion.
I am a huge fan of RSS…

Loved these nice little things about RSS feeds. (I also use a feed reader to follow my Mastodon timeline; it’s nice enough because I can just « mark all as read » if I’m not in the mood, and I don’t follow too many people, but it does have its limits.)