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Appreciation of the mark-all-as-read button


Social media timelines are designed to be an endless stream of, well, mostly garbage these days. Platforms are doing their absolute best (worst?) to …

Social media timelines are designed to be an endless stream of, well, mostly garbage these days. RSS was and still is an incredible invention, one that I strongly believe is gonna be the antidote to much of the insanity that’s plaguing the modern web. I set it up to only refresh manually and that means I can leave and come back to my RSS reader and I’m not going to find a million new pieces of content waiting for me, triggering some stupid FOMO.

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