Back in the prehistory of the web, in 1999, a group of people at Netscape (remember Netscape?) implemented a brilliant concept: syndication. The idea is that websites include a page called a feed, which contains all the information needed to open the website in a feed reader. If the website is updated, this will also show up in the reader. The format of the feed is called RSS, which no one is quite sure what it stands for. The most common version is Really Simple Syndication, so let's go with that.

So the idea is that you get an RSS reader, and you subscribe to whatever feeds you want. Do you follow someone who writes periodically on the web? Do you follow a podcast? How about a Youtube channel? A newsletter? Someone on a federated medium, like Mastodon, or Pixelfed? You can subscribe to all these feeds, and get to read/watch/listen to them whenever there's a new post or video or newsletter.

One of the less endearing things about Android phones is that Google is all over them. (And if you're feeling smug about your iPhone, let me tell ya). In particular, there's the Play Store, where you get all those lovely apps that have essential information about you like your shoe size and where you were last night, things that of course Google would never tell anybody else about.