Agreed, and some paid plans on dedicated RSS readers(1) can turn the rare twitter/instagram feeds into proto-RSS feeds in a pinch. it's lovely and keeps me far,

Agreed, and some paid plans on dedicated RSS readers(1) can turn the rare twitter/instagram feeds into proto-RSS feeds in a pinch. it's lovely and keeps me far, far away from the dark patterns inherent to those sites. (1) Inoreader is the one I use with this capability. worth every penny - moved there after Google Reader died.