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.
Reeder for iOS is a great app. I think one of the most minimal and beautiful apps. It’s paid though.
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Came here to big up Reeder! You can switch on Bionic Reading too which is a game changer for us dyslexics and tbh all apps ought to have it
Reeder is great. Well worth the $5.
Agree that Reeder is excellent!
Is it better than Inoreader? I’ve been trying to find a good IOS RSS reader and cannot find one I like, Inoreader is the closest but it’s only decent.
They look similarly minimalist. I like reeder because it really boils thing down to the essential.