If you want to really follow a publication, writer, or something else online and see everything they publish—not just what some social media algorithm throws your way—the best way to do it is with an RSS reader.

RSS (it stands for Really Simple Syndication) has been around since the '90s, and it's a way for sites to publish a feed of all their content in a way that can be easily parsed and aggregated by RSS apps. Basically every website offers some kind of RSS feed, even if they don't advertise it. Although pretty much every podcast app relies on RSS, it's not as popular a format for text as it used to be.

Still, RSS remains the absolute best way to combine stuff from loads of different places into one central app, where you can read everything without having to click around a bunch of sites or scroll through your social feeds. You just open your RSS app and get reading, with every article and blog post presented in reverse chronological order.