Not a fan of RSS, but put a serious thoughts why it's useful at conceptual level, and came up with two simple apps
- github.com/trending daily, weekly, monthly group by 10 programming languages i'm familiar with. will add aggregator private upvote, hiding and 140 chars comment functionality
- grouped youtube channels by interests and tagged them in a cloud tag fashion - got RSS like feeds for ai, databases, c++, go, rust, robotics, etc topics, checking them them regularly on weekly and monthly, but no more doom scrolling or swipping next
Most interesting videos and repos has very few likes or views, and great depth. No way algo will push it up in my feed.
The result - no more time or interest to open up twitter, reddit or facebook feeds.
No stress. No feelings on "missing out"
50% of content correlates with the most trending topic on HN.
Thought to do HN weekly aggregation as a next step ... decided not to do
It's just a pleasure to use HN with comments section as its for me
Why aren't you a fan? That feels like saying 'not a fan of newspaper delivery, but...'.