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I Ditched the Algorithm for RSS—and You Should Too - Joey's Hoard of Stuff

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2w ago

I Ditched the Algorithm for RSS—and You Should Too - Joey's Hoard of Stuff

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The hardest part is when you have to curate by yourself. To me RSS feels like a lot of work upfront. Is there a tool to help discover items to add to your feed aligned with your interest?
- You start with vlogs you like.
  Then see who they have in their blog roll.
  More seriousl, I have literally used RSS regular since like 2006 or so. And I will NEVER forgive Google for killing Reader.
  Anyway, what I mean to say is, its just a growing process. Someone links an article and you say, "Well, this sote seems interesting" and you stick it in your RSS reader.
  Next thing you know you are pulling 1000-2000 articles a day, even with limiting filters.
  One last bit of advice. Most systems let you export your subs.
  DO THIS FROM TIME TO TIME BECAUSE YOU WILL HATE YOUR PAST SELF WHEN SOMETHING GOES WRONG AND YOU LOSE ALL YOUR SUBS.
  
  I went the Local RSS Reader -> Google Reader -> Feedly -> Self-hosted FreshRSS myself. Kinda went full circle on this.
  
  Sometimes I wonder if we're all just the same person
  
  Never forget never forgive.
- You can try mine as a starting point if you like. It covers most subject areas, has categories so that you can easily delete the categories you don't care about. Just import the OPML file to any client you like. I like feedly personally.
- Feedly does a great job of that.
- Look around in your online communities and see what publications get shared.
  Once you find some sites you like, search the web/communities for alternatives with the same topic/vibe.
  If you find journalists you like, see where else they publish their works, or what publications they used to work at. For bloggers / content creators, see who they collaborate with.
- This is where I've struggled. I've gone and tried once or twice and just kinda got confused and lost and came back to reddit, at that time.

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