Your closing argument falls pretty flat to me since I ingest Reddit and HN entirely through RSS. The first step is filtering out the junk I don't care about to

Your closing argument falls pretty flat to me since I ingest Reddit and HN entirely through RSS. The first step is filtering out the junk I don't care about to find the interesting articles, and besides subscribing to sites that are weighted more towards interesting articles than junk (HN, e.g.), RSS allows me to quickly filter out the junk. Then I go to the article and participate in the conversation.