Not arguing with the point of this article. If you have to read FB to keep track of your friends, Social Fixer for Chrome cuts a lot of crap from it.
RSS Still Beats Facebook and Twitter for Tracking News
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#12I skipped RSS for sometime (actually forgot about their existence, my bad!) but I've stopped using facebook or similar platforms for a couple of reasons:
1. No matter how much I try to catch up, I'll still loose something 2. They are too distractive, less productive, and addictive.
RSS was a great way, is still a great way to catch on your fav news.
Thanks for bringing to notice :)
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#13At least you can sorT RSS feeds in a chronological order. I don't care what the algorithm believe, I just want to see the news in the order they came out.
Have to give it to FB, they do have that option.
The standard news feed can be sorted in chronological order, true. But if you are looking for a comprehensive feed of pages posts, you'll miss out here, as not all pages posts are conveyed to your news feed. Facebook does provide a comprehensive pages feed, but it cannot be sorted by chronological order.
As an aside, I also find it strange that the full feed of upcoming events for an area cannot be sorted by date.
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#14I highly recommend Inoreader. It works almost exactly like Google Reader, but with extra enhancements like filtering feeds and following Twitter accounts as feeds.
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#15Indeed. But Facebook and Twitter beat RSS for tracking users. edit: > Perhaps most importantly, you don’t need to be constantly online and constantly refreshing your feeds to make sure you don’t miss anything. That's misleading. If you are using a desktop client then you might miss items from a very active feed if it didn't connect to the web recently enough. That was (to me) the biggest selling point of Google Reade…
> Indeed. But Facebook and Twitter beat RSS for tracking users.
So RSS wins again.
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#16And this is why I run datente.com And why I use RSS to drive a channel on Telegram Agree with the item or not, whatever pops up next is next from wherever you've subscribed It's great
and you don't need to download 15mb of garbage to read a few kb of news
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#17One interesting thing is that a specific twitter search sorted by latest, often produces very decent localized news/reports during some events. One of the first things I turn to confirm the scale of an event, for example blackouts, fire, or meteoroid sightings.
Also there are specific feeds on twitter for some cities that report police/fire scanners. If you ever get a power outage you can track the scale within minutes, by looking at which addresses/intersections have stuck elevator reports.
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#18Indeed. But Facebook and Twitter beat RSS for tracking users. edit: > Perhaps most importantly, you don’t need to be constantly online and constantly refreshing your feeds to make sure you don’t miss anything. That's misleading. If you are using a desktop client then you might miss items from a very active feed if it didn't connect to the web recently enough. That was (to me) the biggest selling point of Google Reade…
I don't understand your comparison. The advantage of google reader was that it was a web app? But every other webbased reader had the same advantage, and since Google Reader's demise, we got an explosion of amazing readers, from free over self-hosted to paid.
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#19I was okay with social-curated news when my social feeds were chronological, but now that everyone's doing algorithms, you miss way too much if you aren't looking at something like RSS. Personally, I use TinyTinyRSS on Sandstorm.io. There's a fantastic TTRSS client available for Windows UWP that works on Windows Mobile too.
I like TinyTinyRSS, but I wish there was a better web-client for it. The default one is way to slow and bloated. I'd still recommend using it though.
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#20At least you can sorT RSS feeds in a chronological order. I don't care what the algorithm believe, I just want to see the news in the order they came out.
Have to give it to FB, they do have that option.
They do, just not as a setting. Without extra browser extension, you need to either open the link directly or click it all the time. (Unless the changed that very recently? Would be weird, they have been working hard for years to make fb as unhelpful as possible for me)