I’ve been a huge fan of RSS for a long time; over the last few months I’ve been think of RSS feeds more and more as a way to get around the broken algorithms of Twitter, FB, and IG’s apps & main sites.

Unfortunately, because of that utility these sites often don’t have built-in RSS support. Mastodon does (and I need to add more mast feeds to my reader), and so does YouTube, but twitter and IG need third-party sites to scrape up feeds. Which are fine as long as they work, but are by nature a fragile mechanism.

For the last year and change, my primary interaction with Twitter has been through these hacked together RSS. And honestly, I love not going to the site. I can skim through tweets in chronological order, and only have to go in to interact with a post. It’s remarkably easy to reach this level of control over your feeds; I wish more people would.

Not sure how to wrap this post up, but a call to action is always good. So how about this – if you use an RSS reader, look into how to migrate your social media feeds in so you can control your inputs. If you don’t use RSS yet, check into them. Or comment on this post and ask for recommendations? Something like that.