I ditched the algorithm for RSS

I've been trying to get back into RSS recently. The problem I keep having is the dramatic weight difference between a news site and a personal blog; I'm occasionally interested in what the news site posts, but its volume is so overbearing that it's all I see in my feed. I just walk away with FOMO every time.

I'm currently thinking about trying Feedly AI as an algorithm that could surface good content for me.

I use TinyTinyRSS - it has very powerful filters that support regex. So I spend the time to write Regex filters that run over all the news sites, so as to only surface stuff I'm really interested in on the "fresh articles" page. I can still go in and look at every article etc.

You can also apply weights etc, so for the small blogs etc I follow, I give their new articles a high score they so float to the top of the reader.

It works really well and I don't feel like I'm drowning anymore - I have a massive amount of content still get imported, but only the stuff I want to see is what I'm presented with.

I just put them in separate categories/folders. The small blogs get more attention, the news websites I just quickly scroll past scanning the titles.

I'm working on a feed reader that separates articles into Inbox and Library.

New content shows up in the inbox, where you can bookmark or archive. Bookmarked content shows up in the library.

Going through the Inbox and bookmarking interesting content is fast, and in the Library the high volume feeds don't matter as much (because you curated before and only have interesting content there).

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