You know how you didn't end up looking into Bitcoin until you heard about it on a few different occasions? I finally started using RSS recently. I heard about it on a few different occasions, seen the logo a few times, but when I clicked it, I didn't understand what I was seeing.

RSS is an open protocol for aggregation of news, articles, video or podcasts. (I heard a lot about RSS from podcasts. It is the reason why unless something is a Spotify exclusive, it's available everywhere, without the creator uploading it to every podcasting app. "Walled gardens" always lose to open protocols and RSS is the protocol podcasting is built on. )

I gave Feeder for Android a try, as I saw it had pretty good ratings and was open source. I then started visiting the websites and blogs of my favorite minds in the Bitcoin space and adding them to my feed.

Bitcoiners should consider giving it a try. It allows you the ability to curate a feed of intelligent content. Sometimes 280 characters falls short of creating an intelligent, nuanced opinion. It's a lot easier than remembering to check 100 different websites to see if they wrote a new blog post.

You may be thinking how is this different than social media feeds? Glad you asked. More than ever, creators put their content on centralized sites such as Twitter, Medium, YouTube and others, rather than their own website which they may have more control over. The centralized websites can possibly censor creators from posting their work. RSS is a protocol that can't censor any content. Largely, social media has eaten much of RSS's use, but RSS is still pretty big in many circles.

In a world where Bitcoin (and content on the subject) could theoretically be banned, RSS is a useful tool.

Interesting fact: you can follow StackerNews on RSS!