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STOP using SOCIAL MEDIA for News, RSS is MUCH BETTER! (tilvids.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm sorry to say that the headline is false. With RSS you get an opinion from one random person on the internet and no other context. On social media there are comments which more often than not collaboratively bring in the context in the comments and do what classically has been done by the editors in newspapers: fact checking, contextualizing, explaining.

Theoretically RSS could do those things too if renowned newspapers would offer RSS feeds, but they don't because they want to show advertisement and it seems not enough people who use RSS want to pay for subscriptions.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

With RSS you get an opinion from one random person on the internet and no other context.

Sorry, but this is false. Here's a good read on RSS:

ReadYou/Getting-Started

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What I meant to say was from one random person on the Internet per article.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh and interestingly I'm quite aware about what RSS is. My first RSS generator I wrote for my first blogsoftware in ca 2005 later in 2013 I wrote (my first RSS reader for Linux](https://github.com/jeena/FeedTheMonkey), I wrote another one for Firefox OS and in between I wrote a coupple of other RSS and Atom generators for different propitiatory RSS/Atom generators like for my other blog software.

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

I wasn't implying that you're not aware about RSS, sorry if my comment read that way.

I understand now, that you use RSS only for Blogs. I never use it for Blogs. There are a few newspapers like AP or institutions like Deutsche Welle, that still use RSS. Otherwise i use it for sites like boing boing, verge, ct, phys.org or hacker News.

As another comment said, sometimes it's too much.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

With RSS you also get everything (too much), while on social media it's curated.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Can you explain a bit more what you mean? I've been using RSS since 2006 and what you're saying is not my experience. I follow mostly personal blogs, because newspapers don't offer RSS feeds.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Fair enough, I personally have only ever used RSS for webcomics, so I'm talking out of my ass here. But it still stands that an article I find, say, on lemmy, has usually been posted by a third party who found it worth posting. So it has often gone through a selection process before reaching me.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Until RSS releases a comment feature, I will keep using Lemmy for news.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

The real meta is to use an RSS feed which points to Lemmy. 🙃

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Shout out to Feeder https://f-droid.org/packages/com.nononsenseapps.feeder

RSS is the superior, no nonsense way to get data online.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I haven’t opened my RSS app in a while because I over subscribed and ran away. But it was definitely a good way to compare news from different sources and get balance.

When I’m lazy I read comments for context but they’ve proven to be less reliable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I never stopped, but a lot of my older subs have turned into mostly obvious AI slop or summaries of Reddit posts, & so I spend less time skimming my RSS feed & more time on Lemmy…