The latter has iCloud synchronization and they are both free. I suggest NetNewsWire or An Otter RSS, I like the former more, but it lacks iCloud synchronization. Hopefully, more people will go back to blogging soon. I already use RSS readers, luckily a lot of smart people still prefer to blog rather than creating artificially long videos to fill with ads. Furthermore, Google wants you to search for updates, not just receive them. It was killed in 2013, probably because Google could not monetize on it. RSS readers were so popular that even Google maintained one.
But there are plenty of other synchronization services you already use, so why adding another one, just use one of them. The reason they store your data is for synchronization purposes. They also store your data for you, which is not how an RSS reader was meant to work. Many services help you with that, but they all need you to create an account, in contrast with another one of my new year resolutions, which consists of reducing the number of digital accounts. Another one is using RSS readers, an old technology used to gather articles and have them directly delivered to you the moment they are published. One way to achieve it is using newsletters. My approach, now, is to get delivered to me only the information I want to have. We have been silently converted from information seekers to information dumpsters. Why? I am not following thedevlife, why should I see their posts? We open Instagram, and we see “suggested posts” often between two images uploaded by our contacts. You were not bombarded with a bunch of “related” pages, images, or articles.īut now we check our Facebook timeline to see updates from our friends, and then we are overloaded by posts we do not really care about. You either stop there or search for something else. If you needed information you had to search for it. I remember once wondering why I was still awake in the middle of the night watching a video of a cat cleaning itself. I find myself too many times lost in endless feeds, or ending up on a random video on YouTube after hours of watching other random videos. One of my new year’s resolutions is to change the way I consume information from the Internet.
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