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I'm sorry to say that the headline is false. With RSS you get an opinion from one random person on the internet and no other context. On social media there are comments which more often than not collaboratively bring in the context in the comments and do what classically has been done by the editors in newspapers: fact checking, contextualizing, explaining.
Theoretically RSS could do those things too if renowned newspapers would offer RSS feeds, but they don't because they want to show advertisement and it seems not enough people who use RSS want to pay for subscriptions.
Sorry, but this is false. Here's a good read on RSS:
ReadYou/Getting-Started
What I meant to say was from one random person on the Internet per article.
Oh and interestingly I'm quite aware about what RSS is. My first RSS generator I wrote for my first blogsoftware in ca 2005 later in 2013 I wrote (my first RSS reader for Linux](https://github.com/jeena/FeedTheMonkey), I wrote another one for Firefox OS and in between I wrote a coupple of other RSS and Atom generators for different propitiatory RSS/Atom generators like for my other blog software.
I wasn't implying that you're not aware about RSS, sorry if my comment read that way.
I understand now, that you use RSS only for Blogs. I never use it for Blogs. There are a few newspapers like AP or institutions like Deutsche Welle, that still use RSS. Otherwise i use it for sites like boing boing, verge, ct, phys.org or hacker News.
As another comment said, sometimes it's too much.
With RSS you also get everything (too much), while on social media it's curated.
Can you explain a bit more what you mean? I've been using RSS since 2006 and what you're saying is not my experience. I follow mostly personal blogs, because newspapers don't offer RSS feeds.
Fair enough, I personally have only ever used RSS for webcomics, so I'm talking out of my ass here. But it still stands that an article I find, say, on lemmy, has usually been posted by a third party who found it worth posting. So it has often gone through a selection process before reaching me.