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I ditched the algorithm for RSS

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744 points DearNarwhal | 1 comments | 16 Jan 25 12:18 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source
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cglong ◴[16 Jan 25 20:01 UTC] No.42730146[source]▶
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.

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1. muppetman ◴[16 Jan 25 20:47 UTC] No.42730695[source]▶
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.