And lots of tools that can get you there.įeedly, for instance, has for the last two years gravitated toward being a tool for research rather than passive entertainment. No matter what your current disposition, though, in this age of algorithmic overreach there's something deeply satisfying about finding stories beyond what your loudest Twitter follows shared, or that Facebook's News Feed optimized into your life. And some of you have already moved on to the next article in your Feedly queue. For others, it means figuring out what the heck an RSS feed is in the first place-we'll get to that in just a minute. Or maybe you haven't used RSS since five years ago, when Google Reader, the beloved firehose of news headlines got the axe. Tired of Twitter? Facebook fatigued? It's time to head back to RSS.įor many of you, that means finding a replacement for Digg Reader, which went the way of the ghost this month. But anyone weary of black-box algorithms controlling what you see online at least has a respite, one that's been there all along but has often gone ignored. Unfortunately, there's no panacea for what ails this internet we've built. The modern web contains no shortage of horrors, from ubiquitous ad trackers to all-consuming platforms to YouTube comments, generally.

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