Brandon says the way they use the internet is broken but one thing they say in a tangential about using RSS was a quiet light-bulb moment for me.
I don’t follow too many blogs and I’m always pruning sites that don’t offer anything useful or entertaining.
One thing that’s been a psychological stressor for me on social media platforms, although I’ve been getting better about it over the past year or two, is that because people can see who follows them, it’s tough for me not to feel like I’m insulting someone if I unfollow.
Among the many positive features of RSS is that while someone might be keeping stats on numbers of subscribers, generally speaking they only know when that number rises or falls, not who is coming or going.