Shameless(-ish) plug for my project, siftrss: https://siftrss.com/
You add a source feed, include/exclude items by keyword or regex match, and get a new filtered feed to subscribe to. Because it produces a normal RSS feed like any other, it works with all RSS readers.
It's totally free. No ads, no account, no email capture, nothing but totally disposable RSS feed filters.
I haven't looked at their implementation much, but I imagine it only works on Feedly itself whereas siftrss is meant to be totally agnostic to what reader you use. The tool also supports regex, so you can do some slightly richer matching with siftrss.
Hmm, I wonder if there's a way to use it to turn a Medium feed into something useful. (By default, a medium feed is not, as it contains all comments by the author interspersed with actual stories/posts, with no obvious way for software to distinguish).
As for Medium feeds, it's all about whether or not you can find a pattern in the data to exploit. For instance, maybe links for comments contain "/c/" whereas links for posts contain "/p/" or something similar. There is, of course, no guarantee that there is anything to exploit or that what is exploitable won't change—that's the joy of dealing with third-parties! :)
That is a neat idea, though!
Well, that's fine as long as that group of people is big enough for the sites I care about to consider it worthwhile enough to actually add an RSS feed :)
But let's not pretend it's always easy.
You gotta take in consideration the filters, the configuration, the cache, if you support rss and atom, the routing, and how you integrate it in your design.
There is no such thing as a free lunch.
Oh noes! Markdown is dead!
Oh noes! SOAP XML is dead!
Oh noes! RESTful JSON is dead!
How the fuck would a non-coding journalist know the difference?
Plus they remove tracking and ads on the web page.
Should be win/win since we all hate tracking, ads and never click on them anyway and still actually want to reward sources we read, right?
And there's nothing factually wrong about RSS providing weaker data to ad-tech survellance. The only reason it's being pushed back onto the front burner, is because the Facebook election botch has got everyone spooked about analytics trackers, and lots of richer sources are going dark, putting RSS back on an even footing with the usual web tracker data sources, because everyone is blocking thirdparty scripts and resources.
Meanwhile, pretty sure the guy is operating as a tool for a paycheck sourced from the industry the article serves, and having qualifications only helps to support such theories, since credibility makes the opinion of a stooge all the more valuable. Maybe I should lump you in with him.
No filtering. No comments. No proposal. No central way to find them.
It's not the absence of curation.
It's my curation.
It's easy: I like a site, I want news, I get the RSS. I delete it when it's not to my taste anymore.
The basic, deterministic, manual aspect of it is what's right with it. Not what's wrong.
Another weird idea is that RSS should be for everybody. No. It speaks to a certain kind of people, and that's fine.