Comment by pbmonster
The best thing about modern RSS is that you can retire entire accounts.
I don't have YouTube or Twitter accounts, I use RSS to subscribe to channels/users/tags.
The best thing about modern RSS is that you can retire entire accounts.
I don't have YouTube or Twitter accounts, I use RSS to subscribe to channels/users/tags.
This is the key imho, adapting stuff to yourself / your needs, when and where the GloboHomoCorp allows you to.
E.g. I don't use Twitter directly due to toxicity and overwhelmingness of the central feed (thank you Nikita), and due to, for me, the biggest issue - how shit it is for reading / following individual user feeds - when you find someone who's really interesting, and you don't want to miss posts.
So I use nitter and bookmark each person's profile I find interesting and I have that in a separate folder. Then at my pace, daily or weekly I read through people's posts and can really keep up like God intended me to.
At first it was less engaging than just having Twitter (as it's less adictive), and I've paced from deleting / using actual Twitter back and forth, but due to recent changes and events I've actually come to a place where through my bookmarks I discover new profiles / people / interests / niches at an organic pace that I can only compare to how I've used to use RSS or web in the older times. It's quite cool.