when tech involved, it’s easy to forget the tech hoops one goes through for their systems.

the social media hurdles:

1. knowing about email
   1.1. having made an email
2. knowing about social media
   2.1 finding the social media site or app
3. signing up to social media (proving non-machine at times)
4. verifying registration in email
5. sometimes selecting categories to pick relevant sources to add/follow/subscribe
   5.1 sometimes letting it read your contacts so it can help you find those sources and not having that phase you at all
6. finally getting to a feed/timeline of desired info, sometimes littered with irrelevance, often with ads
   6.1 maybe set up profile avatar/banner/bio if really aiming to be social
7. fussing with the foolish systems to surface what was chosen (or at least similar to it)
8. enjoy when the systems surface what you’ve chosen (or similar to it)
9. rue the days the systems insist on shoveling you garbage instead

the rss hurdles:

1. knowing what rss is
   1.1 knowing about rss readers
2. finding reader apps still maintained
3. finding sites that still provide supported rss feeds
   3.1 finding where they hide their rss feeds because some like to hide them like they’re ashamed of them
4. copy feed link to reader app
5. get only chosen feeds in reader app
   5.1 curse the badly made feeds that include advert articles
   5.2 create filter rules to toss the trash from badly made feeds
6. enjoy chosen feeds with filters in reader app
7. rue the days sites kill their RSS feeds