Your RSS Reader Is Robbing You
Antonio opines that by using RSS feeds instead of visiting people's sites, we're robbing ourselves of enjoying the design many site owners have put a lot of work into.
On the other side of the argument is this post by Christian Cleberg where he argues that using RSS allows us to consume many different sites with typography that we prefer.
Maybe the site's font isn't that nice, or it's too bright, too dark, too small. Using RSS normalises the design across all sites and allows readers to have the same experience across all the sites we read.
I lean more to Christian's way of thinking, but I do regularly visit people's sites too, just to see the design and how it may have changed over time. It's a simple click of the post title on my RSS reader, Miniflux, so it's simple for me to get the best of both worlds.
So I don't think our RSS readers our robbing us - we can have our cake and eat it.
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