Re:It's time to head back to RSS?
by toasterlovin on Saturday March 31, 2018 @12:59AM
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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. 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.
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I've been using Newsboat (https://github.com/newsboat/newsboat) and 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.
Re:It's time to head back to RSS?
by reificator on Saturday March 31, 2018 @01:09AM
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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.
As a compromise I’ve used PodSync[1] to feed specific channels into Pocket Casts so I can avoid having to go to YouTube.
> 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?
Re:It's time to head back to RSS?
by toasterlovin on Saturday March 31, 2018 @11:36AM
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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.
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.
You can gaze over (recent) publications from thousands of sources in about the same time it takes to look at a single website.
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.