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and in a world of casual readers who don’t care where their news is coming from so long as it’s in their interests and matches their biases, NewsBlur is the cof
by joosters 13y ago
and in a world of casual readers who don’t care where their news is coming from so long as it’s in their interests and matches their biases, NewsBlur is the coffee equivalent of the AeroPress.
What rot. Using an RSS reader doesn't magically free you from your own biased news sources. If anything, it insulates you more into your own bubble.
- GFK_of_xmaspast 13y agoNewsblur has a "global shared stories" tab but its mostly just popular nerd sites like HN and Dilbert comics and Wired that I have no interest in.
- wpietri 13y agoHe's not saying RSS readers magically free you from your own biases news sources. What he's pointing at is people's indifference to source as long as it's comfortable. That's in contrast to a newsreader, where you hand-select your sources. I think the group he's talking about includes people who get all their news from one comfortable source and those who get all their news socially, which is also generally comfortable. Hand-selecting sources for a feed reader doesn't guarantee that you'll end up with stuff that doesn't match your biases. In my case, though, I specifically include sources that are solid ones but that don't match my biases. So an RSS reader at least makes that possible.