Although I am a big fan of RSS, I find this article very disingenuous.
The author complains about the chaos, vulgarity, and hostility of Twitter, but those complaints would apply to almost any social media platform.
Then he suggests replacing it with RSS feeds from curated, professional RSS sources, which is not social media. You could achieve the same things on Twitter if you just followed the same curated, profession Twitter feeds.
This is really just a roundabout argument that can be summarized as "don't read the comments."
The solution to “too much RSS” is the same for Twitter. Unsubscribe/unfollow. Twitter does not require you to follow someone to interact with them. I follow relatively few people directly yet I have themed lists following other accounts. If I want local news I check my local list.
Twitter works quite well in this regard vs. Facebook where you need to be “friends” to interact.
As a counterpoint you're unlikely to be doxxed, lose your job, or any of the other social "features" using RSS. While one could simply say nothing and hope to avoid this, it's still up to the Twitter algorithms to display relevant content, which could change at any moment. Effectively it's about control, with Twitter you're hoping for benevolence as you're the product, with RSS you're the customer.
Huh, I didn't know there even was an algorithmic feed. I haven't used the official Facebook app since it stopped being Tweetie, so I wasn't following the changes.
No, that doesn't work, because Twitter shows tweets to you if their algorithm thinks you will like them, whether you have a follower relationship to it or not. Twitter's newsfeed is nothing at all like an RSS feed.
You can turn twitter into an RSS feed with various other apps (I like Feedbin), and it greatly improves the experience.
The author complains about the chaos, vulgarity, and hostility of Twitter, but those complaints would apply to almost any social media platform.
Then he suggests replacing it with RSS feeds from curated, professional RSS sources, which is not social media. You could achieve the same things on Twitter if you just followed the same curated, profession Twitter feeds.
This is really just a roundabout argument that can be summarized as "don't read the comments."