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Comment by binaryapparatus | Hacker News Reader

I even got rid of RSS several months ago. Couple of news sites, several tech news feeds (did I really need 9to5mac, macrumors AND Cult of Mac??) and few job related feeds.

Didn't really need ANY of them as it turns out.

I don't know the way to filter RSS in any meaningful way so that had to go too.

(Never was on facebook or twitter so my main nemesis is/was web browser and RSS feeds).

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Filtering RSS depends on your RSS client.

On the desktop, QuiteRSS [1] is really good at it.

On Android, SpaRSS [2] isn't entirely terrible at it, though there might be better ones out there (I've essentially only looked on F-Droid).

[1] http://quiterss.org/

[2] https://github.com/Etuldan/spaRSS/blob/HEAD/README.md

I was mainly using https://newsbeuter.org/ and it has great filters. Just that action to reward (circumventing filters) does not require enough effort to prevent me from not looking outside of them.

The only thing I still look at is HN and, as we can see, that goes almost with success.

Same here. Never used Facebook/Twitter preferring RSS instead, recently decided to replace it with subscriptions to few weekly newsletters, so far so good.

RSS for news sites has never worked for me (well, apart from planet.mozilla). Where it’s worth is for me is aggragating the hundred or so blogs I follow that post interesting things once every 3-12 months.

I'm subscribed to lots of RSS feeds, but an import rule is: only feeds which publish at most one article per day. That excludes all news. Mostly it is personal blogs which publish weekly or monthly.

This is the killer feature of RSS feeds. It checks rarely updated websites for updates.

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