RSS is not dead: take back your news
October 2026
Somewhere along the way we traded choosing our news for being fed it. RSS never left, and it still works.
Every site you like almost certainly publishes a feed: news outlets, blogs, webcomics, release notes, even some newsletters. A feed is just a machine-readable list of new articles, updated whenever the site publishes. Readers collect them into one timeline, newest first, with no ranking, no ads injected between posts, no engagement optimization.
The practical difference is control. On social platforms an algorithm decides the mix: some news, some outrage, some ads, ordered to keep you scrolling. With RSS the mix is yours: you subscribed to twelve sites, you see twelve sites. When a source gets noisy, you unsubscribe instead of muting keywords and hoping.
Getting started takes ten minutes. Pick a reader, and add feeds two ways: paste a site address and let the reader find the feed, or search by keyword for topics like retro gaming or spaceflight. Start with ten sources maximum. Fewer, better sources beat fifty you never read.
The habit matters more than the tool. Check feeds twice a day, morning and evening, instead of grazing all day. Mark everything as read without guilt: RSS is a river, not an inbox. What matters resurfaces; what does not was never important.
Nemvy includes an RSS reader with automatic refresh every 30 minutes, so your feeds are waiting when you open your morning page. Bring ten sites you actually like.