Comment by zahlman
2 days ago
>turns out I was very wrong and lots of people seem to prefer just getting washed in a steady stream of somewhat internally consistent worldview.
If you're putting together an RSS feed from creators you like, isn't that liable to happen anyway?
Interesting point. Yes, if you pick too narrow a set of feeds, they might not even prompt you to engage with other sources, leading to our good old filter bubble effect. I'd still posit the risk of that happening is way higher when you only have a centralized platform like, say, twitter, controlling the push-factor based on payment. With RSS, I can still adjust my feed exactly to my preferences once I notice a bias or degradation in quality of certain feeds. This cannot be done if my feed is controlled by a machine optimized for maximizing engagement/advertisement $.
I think the “washed in a steady stream” part is missing from RSS feeds.
You’d need to join like meta rss feeds.
Meta et al have an infinite feed. You can scroll forever.
My news reader had 6 articles in it yesterday and that's it. I can reload as many times as I want and that won't change.
little "m" meta, as in "rss feeds about rss feeds" rather than big "M" Meta the company
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