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It looks like you could improve your experience by switching from Facebook to any RSS reader.

Quite the opposite. The benefit is getting Facebook's algorithm, instead of a reverse chronology. I never found any of the million apps that tried to accomplish this to actually mix the news better than fb.

I liked the idea of prismatic, but it surfaced mostly clickbait. Feedlys popular didn't feel as dynamic. Have you tried using Fb this way, or are you just telling me I should use something else? Why do you think I would find rss to be an improvement (I migrated from rss to Fb lists.)

I've made this suggestion because at first I didn't realise that you find FB's algorithmic sorting/curation useful. I tend to read (or at least skim) all of the content that I subscribe too and FB (and Twitter) are a bit hostile for this usecase.

Assuming that publishers have functional RSS feeds, which is rarely the case. For small venues/companies/organizations I more and more often have to go to their Facebook page rather than their website to get up-to-date and correct information.

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