From Collaborative Fund:
Algorithms have an answer for everything except what’s good. They can tell you what’s trending, what people like you clicked on, what to watch next — but they can’t tell you why something matters, or what it felt like to discover it. That gap is widening. As AI-generated content fills every feed and recommendation engines collapse taste into pattern-matching, the most valuable signal online is increasingly the simplest one: a real person, with a real point of view, telling you about something they love.
And this is why I love RSS readers. I am following a person. A person who will be like me in some ways and unlike me in many other ways. And the way that person is unlike me, is the opportunity for me to learn new things.