Molly White: Curate your own newspaper with RSS. “What if you could take all your favorite newsletters, ditch the data collection, and curate your own newspaper?”
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Never stopped using RSS but love that she demystified it for normal people. Absolutely check out her blog roll!
An elegant weapon for a more civilized age.
Man, I wish there were an RSS reading experience with browsing similar to front-page news: Featured stories, sections by topic, and only a limited number of stories. No infinite content or inbox-unread vibe, not dependent on my own organizing/sorting of feeds, and no visual grid/list view wall.
Earlier this year, I set up a self-hosted RSS reader (FreshRSS) on my home server and paired it with a self-hosted "read later" app (Wallabag) and it's completely changed my internet experience for the better. I paired this with a mesh VPN solution (Nordvpn's Meshnet in my case) and I can access it securely on from anywhere on my phone.
I use a combination of Kill The Newsletter and Gmail's plus-addressing to sign up to newsletters with a specific email address, and now they all skip my inbox and go directly to my RSS feed instead.
I follow hundreds of sites via RSS and it’s great. Though I would like to note that this site’s RSS feed has been messed up for a long time—it shows only a sentence or two of each post along with a lot of random site data.
I haven't had any issues with this site's feed using https://feeds.kottke.org/main
I would love it if e-ink ereader manufacturers provided an RSS reader with their products. For me, nothing would be better than reading articles on my Kindle Paperwhite. I _thought_ the Kindle supported RSS feeds when it was introduced, but right now its web browser is almost impossible to use (slow, won't handle Gannett's login process, etc)
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