RSS May Be The Best Invention Ever

I gush about this far too much. But RSS has changed the way I use the internet. It used to be, I'd find a blog or a website I liked and then forget about it about 30 seconds after leaving. Maybe I remember again a week or two later, but probably not.

Once I started to use RSS, that all changed. When I find a site that I like, I just add the feed to FreshRSS, and I have access to it whenever something new comes out. It keeps me from forgetting the things that I find on the internet, or burying them in a read later list.

It also tickles my organization habit too, as I can organize things by category and then browse them when I'm interested in a certain topic. I've found that it limits my doom-scrolling a little, since I usually stick with one category at a time. Get done with one, and then I go do something else.

It has also just improved the Internet. I use an ad blocker, and that makes the web okay, but with RSS, I get the Internet in a UI I choose. I wish more sites gave the entire content of their posts (if anyone knows how to enable this in Ghost, please let me know), but even then, it's still nicer than browsing on most websites these days.

I really think everyone should give RSS a revisit. It's better than using a news app since you get to curate it yourself, and it's better than visiting sites one at a time. It makes consuming content so much more enjoyable, that it's hard to live without.

Have an RSS feed you'd like to share? Leave it for me in the comments below.

This is part of 30 in 30. Two more days.