Making us of RSS Feed
If you rely on websites for information, chances are that you have a long list of websites that you visit often. To visit these sites, you either have them bookmarked or you search for them every time you want to visit a site. There is a better way that gives you more control over your web browsing and content: RSS, which stands for Really Simple Syndication. This option allows you to have one place where you store all the sites that you read and present them to you in an orderly fashion. For most efficient use of RSS, you need the following:
2. sign up for a feedreader account
These steps will allow you not only to have all updates from your favorite websites streamed in one location, without any algorithm manipulating their presentation to you, but it will also allow you to store and organize information the way you want. Also, this option gives you more control over your privacy: no need to sign up for social media accounts or newsletters. Build your Own Content!
Steps to take to access our feed:
2. Bookmark or save it in a way where you can access it on any of your devices
3. Add an extension to the browser you use; Browser extension can be helpful, examples: this Chrome extension (RSS Subscription Extension (by Google)) and this Firefox add-on (Want My RSS) will add an RSS feed icon to your URL bar, and you can click it to subscribe to almost any website you're on. You can also use a feed generator like Fetch RSS or RSS.app to help you identify the URL Feed for a website.
I hope this helps you take control of what you read online, instead of depending on social media algorithms.
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