In the Steem system, one of the readability issues is that you can follow a person, a tag (theme), but you can’t filter your feed anymore. If the person is blogging about different themes, you will see all in your feed. Also, the ones you don’t want.
Multi-talented people
For example, I'm writing about “traditional” stock or commodity investing, cryptocurrencies, lifehacking, language learning... I'm also making polls, almost every day and sometimes publishing photo series. I can imagine some people interested in investing hate my polls, others interested only in cryptocurrencies hate my post about stock market or languages, photos. (A similar issue are representing other technical posts about rewards or advances in dApps, see this poll from @rem-steem).
Crypto-news in the RSS reader Feedly.com
Different languages can be also an issue. I'm writing mostly in English but sometimes also in Spanish or German. For some people the one, for others the other can be like spam.
What is the solution?
Selecting the best from chaos
I use Feedly to select the best blogs and bloggers, the most interesting or useful posts when I read news or blogs. An RSS feed is like your feed on Steemit.com, a series of articles or posts you can read in an RSS reader. It can be related to an author, to a section on a news site (“stock exchange”, “cryptocurrency”) or can be the feed of a specific blog. The big advantage is you don’t have to see the entire site, only a part of it in which you are interested.
Crypto-news in the RSS reader Feedly.com
The advantages of an RSS feed are, you don't have to visit any website. In fact, the websites are sending the new posts to your reader. Just like on Steemit.com, where you do not have to visit the pages of the people you follow. You see all their posts in your feed, in a single timeline.
No RSS feed on Steemit?
Unfortunately, I couldn't find any RSS feeds on Steemit.com, on Busy.com, or Partiko.io either. There were solutions and tricks earlier, like the one described here by @mike314-0005 or the other here by @libertylol but seemingly not working anymore. (I can follow only my own posts as you see on the second picture on Feedly.com.)
My own posts in the RSS reader Feedly.com
But this issue could be solved so nicely with RSS feeds. Imagine all users can have 5 (better 10) RSS feeds and a main one. You could follow all posts from the blogger with the main feed. Only one specific theme with the other feeds. I could mark my posts like investing or learning or photography and people could follow only one or some of this sub-feeds.
Using tags
Another simple solution is if you could filter the posts for two factors: user and tag, I mean the actual, existing tag system. Not only follow @billclinton987, for example, but follow “@billclinton987” and “investing” and “cryptocurrencies”. And you won’t see the posts of this user about Steem Monsters or swimming pools or lies and sex or whatever.
The other advantage of RSS feeds is you can read your feeds in an RSS reader. The reader memorizes which posts you have read, which not, where were you going to read the last time. Unlike the feed on Steemit.com where the older posts are easily forgotten, the newer ones are situated always first in the line.
Other nice side of RSS readers (Feedly, Old Reader, Palabre etc.) could be that they could join your readings from Steemit pages and other blogs or news sources. You could use the Brave New Steem World and the old one in the same place. While you are waiting for Steem to triumph forever.
My phone, reading my mind
By the way, another life hack : I had to travel this weekend and spent most time without my computer. This was the first time I had written a blog post almost entirely on my phone. (Correcting it afterwards on the computer.) This was possible with Swiftkey, an application trying to read your mind... With some sort of artificial intelligence it not only completes the words you’re typing, it is learning your writing habits and adapting itself to your use cases.
I think it's genius, is saving about 50 percent of my typing time now. Although I have some security and privacy concerns about letting a program store all my texts I type.
(Cover photo: Pixabay.com)