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What does it feel like to read RSS feeds?


Giles wrote about how he feels about using RSS feeds and that sparked some ideas that I want to add to the discussion.

Others followed suite and these days every major commercial social media platform prioritizes a feed that’s run by a set of recommendation algorithms. Compared to social media, a main difference with blogs is that the posts are (usually) longer form articles instead of short bits. I have no notifications enabled for iPad so before the world starts to hammer with requests for my attention, I get to read what my Internet friends have been thinking and working on.

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