No more RSS

I'd open my RSS reader after a few days away and find a hundred unread posts. I'd mark them all as read. That was my reading habit. After reading Jon's post about saying goodbye to RSS, it stayed with me. Someone's writings had become noise I treated no better than a teenager scrolling past a picture on Facebook Instagram. To counteract that, I stopped using RSS. I returned to where I was 25 years ago: a bunch of bookmarks. You can imagine how surprised I was discovering that browsers still support those. I sit down and go through the list one by one. A day may be right for only some of the blogs and sites. I don't need to know what is going on in the other slice. I'll be there next time. This matches a wider tendency in how I start to use the web. I want my usage of The Internet to be as conscious of an act as possible. No algorithm, no spam, no "Orange Site", and now no RSS. If I land on some text, it was my active decision. I'm not there. Mastodon (not self-hosted) is my daily…