Over the past month I've started using RSS through a combination of ReadKit and Feedibin for everything I possibly can. YouTube videos, Reddit, Twitter, News We

Over the past month I've started using RSS through a combination of ReadKit and Feedibin for everything I possibly can. YouTube videos, Reddit, Twitter, News Websites, Blogs, Newsletters. All of it, RSS. And it is absolutely fucking awesome. Some pertinent points: - My news addiction has dramatically declined in less than two weeks. I have a Feedbin action which automatically sets everything from Reddit, Hacker News, and news websites as read. I also utilise the Smart Folder functionality of ReadKit to exclude the same websites from the Today folder. This means I can click on these feed and have a look through it at my leisure but there's no pressure to 'get caught up' on everything. - As a result of the above, I am a lot more focussed and present and I am getting more shit done. I am wasting way less time mindlessly browsing low quality content and doomscrolling. - I no longer have to deal with a bunch of ads, cookie requests, email subscription popups and whatever else junk that is bringing the internet to the point where it's unusable. - Managing my email is now a joy. The only thing that goes there is correspondence, invoices and important account information. I've been unsubscribing to everything else as it comes in and keeping subscriptions to the newsletters I want to keep using the email address provided by Feedbin. - I use hnrss to handle hacker news and have a feed set up for replies to my comments which means I engage with people on this site better. I also have Front Page, Ask HN, Best Comments, Active etc all under one HN tag in Feedbin. I'm finding scrolling through this a better experience than just checking the Front Page, or the tabs separately. - I'm reading way more varied and better quality materials from individuals, blogs and specialist magazines rather than mainstreams journalists pushing politics and agendas. - As a result of all the above, the internet is FUN again. It feels like I've time travelled back 20 years to when the internet was full of unique and quirky webpages and you never knew what you was going to find. In reality it's been there the entire time, but social media, mainstream media, search engines and other massive corporations have pushed it out of site and sent me to sleep in order to earn money and purse their own agendas. Well, I am awake again and I will not be going back. And hopefully comments like this will help wake up others. You have to spend a little bit of time setting everything up and a few minutes each week tweaking things to keep it organised but it is absolutely worth the effort and the extra cost for the services.