Comment by adeptima
1 day ago
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...'.
Never sticked to me. I guess if I had my own hackable RSS feed UI I would have a better experience.
I do love very dense and rich UI functionality with relevant enriched information too. Not some sort of list I need to click through.
As for cross platform usability. I never wanted anyone to our my RSS aggregations. 100% ownership and ability to hack in is very important for me.
I should probably reassess my decision as it's clearly much easier to turn everything into RSS feed with LLM coding or tools like N8n
Any recommendations are greatly appreciated