So far the RSS reader reboot is working well. I feel like I have more control over the media I get and the stories I read. I especially like rediscovering the blogs of friends whom I haven’t interacted with in a while. On Facebook, I long ago noticed that the service simply didn’t share updates from certain friends in my feed, even though those friends were posting regularly. It became obvious that my “friendships” there were being manipulated. This for me was the downfall of Facebook’s usefulness: when it began to heavily throttle the user to user interaction in favor of stuffing my feeds with unwanted “follow” posts and of course ads. I can still get a taste of that user-to-user by switching to looking at the Friends feed directly but any trust I once had in Facebook is long, long gone.

Hope you’re enjoying the updates here.