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Although the title is a little bit provocative, i tend to agree that RSS is a better way to consume news than Twitter or any other social media platform by the
by guybedo 8y ago
Although the title is a little bit provocative, i tend to agree that RSS is a better way to consume news than Twitter or any other social media platform by the way.
Social platforms should be used for social, not for news, but i guess Twitter is a special case in that one of its core values is to deliver news in real time. But do we need realtime?
Twitter being a social platform, it means you can't easily avoid trolls, offensive/aggressive/idiotic comments...
Off the top of my head, some issues i had with RSS and/or with the tools/RSS readers:
- RSS can become en echo chamber if you have a limited number of feeds
- Too many feeds and your feeds are flooded with a lot of noise
- want to check the top stories of the day, or trending content? need to use a different tool than your RSS reader.
- want to follow some social feeds but without the noise of social platforms?
I wrote something about the signal/noise ratio in RSS recently:
https://medium.com/@julien.aktu/rss-less-noise-more-information-983ea20cb05e https://medium.com/@julien.aktu/rss-less-noise-more-informat...
To solve these issues, i'm trying to bring something to the RSS ecosystem, and i built a news platform mixing RSS and traditional news aggregation.
It has features to limit the noise and help avoid echo chambers. You can follow Facebook pages, Twitter users, etc... add your newsletters to declutter your mail box, and much more to come.
You can check it out here: https://aktu.io/about https://aktu.io/about