My Struggle with Doom Scrolling

Re:My Struggle with Doom Scrolling by bdhcuidbebe on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @08:21AM (#42792495)

Im trying a ”new” thing, in fact something I abandoned years ago. Namely rss.

I made some scrapers for the sites i follow that lacks full rss feeds, and can now enjoy distraction free focused reading again, without inflammatory comment sections.

However, I’m here commenting so I guess im still under the spell. :-/

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Re:My Struggle with Doom Scrolling by n00b_heal on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @08:33AM (#42792615)

Tried this for twitter as there are some people I still like for their concise content, but I don't want to be drawn into curated corporate doomscroll. Doesn't work as good as I thought, but I still consider RSS to be a valuable tool to put a safe gate to personal internet use

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Re:My Struggle with Doom Scrolling by bdhcuidbebe on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @10:09AM (#42793618)

Yea, I dont follow ppl on twitter anymore, but you can use nitter to turn any user into a rss feed.

https://nitter.privacydev.net/elonmusk/rss

For subreddit you can use redlib which has rss feeds, example https://redlib.zaggy.nl/r/insects.rss

Using this as a source, you can combine a bunch of subreddits you like to follow into a single feed for minimal usage effort.

Since you are processing the feeds by now, it is trivial to filter out crap you dont want, such as Musk news.

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