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0 pointsvaylian1y ago0 comments

> firehose

This is what the modern information space feels like in one word. It's impossible to read everything. But at the same time, it's not necessary to read everything.

> What we lack is a presentation that is actually good! I don't have the answer. One thing I want to experiment with, though, is digests.

Do you have a RSS feed that I can subscribe to so that I get notified when you publish your experiment?

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safety1st1y ago· 1 in thread

I've never actually published any of the code I use to view my RSS feeds. This question comes up from time to time when I discuss the subject though! Maybe I will one of these days.

Matumio1y ago

Other people do, though (not mine): https://github.com/facundoolano/feedi

I'm not using that one yet, but I very much like their idea to highlight infrequent sources. If I hand-added the feeds, I feel they should by default have at least an equal chance of me noticing a post in them, without clicking through all the feeds.

I also like the idea of subscribing to everything and then privately filtering the for special-interest keywords. I'm not doing that currently, but I subscribe via RSS to some searches or tags. E.g. here via hnapp.com, or on StackOverflow you can subscribe to tags, or the RSS feed of low-traffic subreddits.

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