Comment by tracker1
3 days ago
Aside: I really miss the days of Google Reader before Google shut it down... I do occasionally look through reddit or medium, but not nearly as much as in the before times. Mostly if it doesn't show up on HN, I'm likely to miss it...
I'd probably add Lobste.rs to my rotation if I had an invite. But I'm not sure that I'll ever reach the regular blog follows that I used to have. I tried a few blog feed readers/aggregators following the death of Google Reader, but nothing really stuck. Not to mention the features that used to be in the browser being entirely gone at this point.
I was an avid GReader user and then lost all of the feeds when they closed down. I've been setting up miniflux lately, but the biggest problem is that over the years I've completely lost all blogs I used to follow (and many of them stopped writing anyway), so it's basically starting from zero. But it's already more interesting than trying to scourge Reddit for a non-marketingslop post to read.
I also configured it to fetch Hacker News with some filters to get rid of AI related posts, and it's actually a good way to follow this also.
If you haven't tried it, I would take a look at Inoreader. Especially if you have YouTube channels that you want to follow (it directly integrates with YouTube subscriptions).
That's kind of nifty... I may take a look... I mostly watch youtube from the couch (NVidia Shield TV), would love an app that did better filtering based on my follows and interests. I sometimes hit the subscribe tab, and it's a bit too much a lot of the time... also, harder to focus, since I have a lot of interests and may not be in the mood for tech videos when I want to watch cooking shows, or food documentaries, etc. When my SO is in the room, I need to skip about half the suggestions as she has zero interest in them. I like construction videos, she likes design but not the construction.
When I worked in an office, I used to also listen to podcasts and ebooks... haven't done any of that in years now.