I’ve found that consuming Web content via RSS encourages more responsible use. The sweet spot between the fire hose and the desert is your own discretion. I cou

I’ve found that consuming Web content via RSS encourages more responsible use. The sweet spot between the fire hose and the desert is your own discretion. I couldn’t imagine subscribing to a feed like a news outlet that feels compelled to publish stories on every single event. I would however, subscribe to an individual’s feed, who aggregates news and other commentary on specific or a few related topics to compliment blog subscriptions and what not. The likes of John Gruber and Michael Tsai and Cory Doctorow seem to be among the few online who do this. For example, I would subscribe to a heavily curated Linkhut (https://ln.ht https://ln.ht) feed or something like someone’s micro.blog page that doesn’t consist of “status updates” a la Twitter/Mastodon. In writing this, I’ve come to the realization that while I used to hate Twitter threads when they first became a thing…I still dislike the idea of them…but there is something worthwhile about fragmented, short-form streams of commentary that can point to larger bodies of work: concept maps, articles, Web books, PDFs etc.