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Over reliance on algorithms has degraded the user experience to the point that the average user is drowning in ragebait and extremist politics, because they drive up engagement. Just like a toddler, algorithms don't discriminate between good and bad attention, so everything that gets clicks is thrust forward. Now, you could hope to train the algorithm to show you only postive things, but engagement is engagement and the algorithm curators often engage in rage farming, where your feed is injected with things that are likely to enrage you.

You can avoid this by installing an RSS reader, going to your favorite sites, and manually adding a RSS feed. Now, your reader has things that you manually selected, with the added bonus of having a content pipe free of malicious interference. You can also divide topics in a way that you can avoid certain themes and news until you decide to engage them.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Serious question. Why don’t sites stop providing a feed and force users to their website to get ads showing?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know anything about RSS. Can someone point me in the right direction to start?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

In a nutshell, an RSS feed reader will aggregate any articles/posts from sites you choose. I pull all my local news and a subreddit into my reader.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Thank you for this YSK post, I've set up my first reader/feed and think this will be a nice value-added system since ditching Reddit a few weeks back. Especially in concert with Lemmy!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The majority of my information comes from RSS feeds. However, I depend on Lemmy (formerly I depended on Reddit) for the things that pop up in an area of interest that I might other wise have missed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Been a Feedly user for years and I love it. I browse it throughout the day.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'd like to see RSS feeds as communitys/magazines.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I like FeedMe (on Android). It's really versatile to customise the UX to your liking.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I did this a few days ago and fucked up. do not add sites that requires a paid subscription. lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Newsblur is my favorite. It's paid, but I find the subscription fee reasonable.

Has some of the old social features of gReader, but it's not that active.

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