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# “How to take back control of what you read on the Internet.”
- URL: https://brilliantcrank.com/how-to-take-back-control-of-what-you-read-on-the-internet/
- Published: 2023-06-25T18:32:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-02-19T19:32:26.000Z
- Author: Greg Storey
- Tags: #observations

The Atlantic makes the case for RSS.

> As long as we rely on social-media sites to curate what we read, we allow them to control what we read, and their interests are not our interests. Fortunately, there already exists a long-standing alternative that provides users with what social media does not deliver: RSS.

There’s a lot of anger towards Elon for what he’s doing to Twitter, but lets not forget the damage Google did when they turned off their RSS reader. We’ve lost a too much freedom, independence, and curiosity to corporate algorithms.