when tech involved, it's easy to forget the tech hoops one goes through for their systems.
the social media hurdles:
- knowing about email
1.1. having made an email
- knowing about social media
2.1 finding the social media site or app
- signing up to social media (proving non-machine at times)
- verifying registration in email
- sometimes selecting categories to pick relevant sources to add/follow/subscribe
5.1 sometimes letting it read your contacts so it can help you find those sources and not having that phase you at all
- finally getting to a feed/timeline of desired info, sometimes littered with irrelevance, often with ads
6.1 maybe set up profile avatar/banner/bio if really aiming to be social
- fussing with the foolish systems to surface what was chosen (or at least similar to it)
- enjoy when the systems surface what you've chosen (or similar to it)
- rue the days the systems insist on shoveling you garbage instead
the rss hurdles:
- knowing what rss is
1.1 knowing about rss readers
- finding reader apps still maintained
- finding sites that still provide supported rss feeds
3.1 finding where they hide their rss feeds because some like to hide them like they're ashamed of them
- copy feed link to reader app
- get only chosen feeds in reader app
5.1 curse the badly made feeds that include advert articles
5.2 create filter rules to toss the trash from badly made feeds
- enjoy chosen feeds with filters in reader app
- rue the days sites kill their RSS feeds
