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I've been using Blogtrottr to email me my RSS feeds for whatever I'm following. It's run without any hiccups in I think over 10 years. I have tons of feeds just emailing me every day and I skim through them and read whatever I find interesting. It's really awesome, much better for me than anything else.

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I haven't heard about blogtrottr before, but landed on a similar idea and built RSS-to-email service for myself and opened it for others (https://briefcake.com). Mainly, I did it to battle my pointless social network and doom scrolling addictions -- and it worked amazingly. I spend less of my time on internet, more of my time with kid.

I'm slowly extending support for other social networks, to my surprise, they are not that "social" and it's quite a pain to scrape anything from them.

Yeah I also use a simple rss2email utility that I hacked together. Having feeds in my mailbox means I can search/filter and tag them appropriately.

A lot of these online feed-readers have terrible UIs for managing large numbers of feeds, but I guess they allow the same benefit of keeping track of state (read vs. unread) that email also offers.

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