If you don't want engagement bait or politics on Twitter.. why are you on Twitter? RSS is better to keep up to date on news, and if none of your friends are on Mastodon, get new friends.
1. People who want to debate / react to things / politics / just get angry apparently.
2. People who are like a town crier from times past, they want to be the first to know some event has happened and then go to their group chats & other social media to post about it.
Sorry, ignorant question -- how does one us RSS to keep up to date on news?
With Twitter, I can see content from people I follow and from content referenced or highlighted by people I follow. People in this case can also include news organizations or other professional journalistic content.
In addition there is the algorithmically generated garbage feed stuff that is mostly useful for seeing (potentially) interesting content that I missed on the main feed, but also contains a ton of content from people I did not follow and that people I do follow did not highlight or reference. Presumably this project attempts to reduce the garbage-ey ness of this feed, which I would appreciate.
For the next month, every time you find something interesting on Twitter, go to the source. Look for their RSS feed - if they don't have one, ask them to work on implementing one both via Twitter and via their contact form.
I don't know if it's still the case, but there used to be RSS feeds for Twitter accounts too.
And what then do I do with the RSS links? The last time I dealt with RSS at all was in the Google Reader days. Are there cross-platform solutions that maintain any context? Is there any way to reply or give feedback through RSS, or participate in conversations?
check out feedly.com its a nice RSS aggrogater website, with a competant ios app as well. Ive used it forever, and like the parent said, when I find myself on a site that provided a story I found interesting, I tried to add the host website ( like https://example.com ) as a rss source, and feedly checks and offers any rss feeds it finds.
1. People who want to debate / react to things / politics / just get angry apparently.
2. People who are like a town crier from times past, they want to be the first to know some event has happened and then go to their group chats & other social media to post about it.