[tamal]

The solution to “too much RSS” is the same for Twitter. Unsubscribe/unfollow. Twitter does not require you to follow someone to interact with them. I follow relatively few people directly yet I have themed lists following other accounts. If I want local news I check my local list.

Twitter works quite well in this regard vs. Facebook where you need to be “friends” to interact.

[cannonedhamster]

As a counterpoint you're unlikely to be doxxed, lose your job, or any of the other social "features" using RSS. While one could simply say nothing and hope to avoid this, it's still up to the Twitter algorithms to display relevant content, which could change at any moment. Effectively it's about control, with Twitter you're hoping for benevolence as you're the product, with RSS you're the customer.

[ihuman]

> it's still up to the Twitter algorithms to display relevant content

What do you mean? I just see a chronological list of tweets, not a randomly-ordered list like facebook

[rrix2]

I find myself having to swap off Twitter's algorithmic feed once or twice a day on mobile.

[ihuman]

Huh, I didn't know there even was an algorithmic feed. I haven't used the official Facebook app since it stopped being Tweetie, so I wasn't following the changes.

[hannasanarion]

No, that doesn't work, because Twitter shows tweets to you if their algorithm thinks you will like them, whether you have a follower relationship to it or not. Twitter's newsfeed is nothing at all like an RSS feed.

You can turn twitter into an RSS feed with various other apps (I like Feedbin), and it greatly improves the experience.

[tamal]

I do not use Twitter.com not the Twitter app. I use third-party clients exclusively.

[kyle-rb]

100% this. I checked the author's Twitter, and he's following well over a thousand people. Surely there's some fat that could be trimmed?