Your RSS reader doesn’t (necessarily) have an algorithm. By default, you’ll get everything as it appears, in reverse-chronological order.
Does that remind you of anything? Right: this is how social media used to work, before it was enshittified.
RSS basically works like social media should work.
Using RSS is a chance to visit a utopian future in which the platforms have no power, and all power is vested in publishers, who get to decide what to publish.............
https://doctorow.medium.com/you-should-be-using-an-rss-reader-76aed31151f9
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