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If you haven’t tried RSS as your main mode of information consumption in a while, you should give it a shot. I went all-in on RSS recently and it’s been great.

If you haven’t tried RSS as your main mode of information consumption in a while, you should give it a shot. I went all-in on RSS recently and it’s been great. Way more thoughtful, long form content. Smaller dose information sources (Twitter, etc.) are useful in their own way, but I’ve found that the amount of time required to create a unit of media is a pretty good reverse indicator of how likely it is to use the baser emotions to acquire and keep my attention.

reificator 9y ago
I've been using Feedly ever since Google Reader died, it's still the first place I look. I do wish I could have an easier time getting YouTube playlists in there[1], but video is really the only sore spot there. [1]: Playlists will now only give the top n videos in a playlist, so you basically have to follow a channel feed instead.
- eswat 9y ago
  As a compromise I’ve used PodSync[1] to feed specific channels into Pocket Casts so I can avoid having to go to YouTube. [1]https://podsync.net/ https://podsync.net/
cyberpip 9y ago
I've been using Newsboat (https://github.com/newsboat/newsboat https://github.com/newsboat/newsboat) and Feeder (https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.nononsenseapps.feeder/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.nononsenseapps.feeder/ ) lately. I feel like I'm able to "cover" so much more news with these. It's just more efficient and focused for me, even though nothing is synced beyond the list of feeds (which I seem to only be adding or two every month). Next I need to re-think my usage of getpocket and newsletters, but the switch to relying more on RSS has been an overdue one.
JeremyNT 9y ago
I've had pretty good results subscribing to a few select Twitter feeds via RSS. Some people do put useful content on Twitter, but the Twitter UI makes it very difficult to identify and extract.
bogomipz 9y ago
> Way more thoughtful, long form content." Isn't RSS the same content as on the publishers page or site though? Maybe I am misinterpreting you comment?
- toasterlovin 9y ago
  Yeah, it’s the same content. It’s just that if you switch to consuming it via RSS, you don’t get sucked into all the bite sized media that permeates the web.
  - bogomipz 9y ago
    I see, yes that makes sense. There's nothing that detracts from the reading experience more than an advertisement placed between two adjacent paragraph in s story. Even the moribund print news media doesn't do this.
- daddosi 9y ago
  You can gaze over (recent) publications from thousands of sources in about the same time it takes to look at a single website.
kqr 9y ago
This was a good ad for syndication. I'll definitely give it a new attempt. Thank you!

reificator 9y ago

I've been using Feedly ever since Google Reader died, it's still the first place I look. I do wish I could have an easier time getting YouTube playlists in there[1], but video is really the only sore spot there. [1]: Playlists will now only give the top n videos in a playlist, so you basically have to follow a channel feed instead.

eswat 9y ago
As a compromise I’ve used PodSync[1] to feed specific channels into Pocket Casts so I can avoid having to go to YouTube. [1]https://podsync.net/ https://podsync.net/

cyberpip 9y ago

I've been using Newsboat (https://github.com/newsboat/newsboat https://github.com/newsboat/newsboat) and Feeder (https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.nononsenseapps.feeder/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.nononsenseapps.feeder/ ) lately. I feel like I'm able to "cover" so much more news with these. It's just more efficient and focused for me, even though nothing is synced beyond the list of feeds (which I seem to only be adding or two every month). Next I need to re-think my usage of getpocket and newsletters, but the switch to relying more on RSS has been an overdue one.

JeremyNT 9y ago

I've had pretty good results subscribing to a few select Twitter feeds via RSS. Some people do put useful content on Twitter, but the Twitter UI makes it very difficult to identify and extract.

bogomipz 9y ago

> Way more thoughtful, long form content." Isn't RSS the same content as on the publishers page or site though? Maybe I am misinterpreting you comment?

toasterlovin 9y ago
Yeah, it’s the same content. It’s just that if you switch to consuming it via RSS, you don’t get sucked into all the bite sized media that permeates the web.
- bogomipz 9y ago
  I see, yes that makes sense. There's nothing that detracts from the reading experience more than an advertisement placed between two adjacent paragraph in s story. Even the moribund print news media doesn't do this.
daddosi 9y ago
You can gaze over (recent) publications from thousands of sources in about the same time it takes to look at a single website.

kqr 9y ago

This was a good ad for syndication. I'll definitely give it a new attempt. Thank you!