NetNewsWire: Free and Open Source RSS Reader for Mac and iOS

And then Google killed their RSS infrastructure, and I stopped using RSS entirely.

I am mostly to blame in this, for trusting Google, but at least it was a lesson on something like RSS instead of something absolutely essential, like email. I soon transitioned away from Google for all essential internet services, and will never depend upon them again for anything.

That way I could quickly scan down the list, read any I wanted to (few — they were mostly the same) and then mark all as read with a couple of keystrokes.

I have a huge “Junk” filter (podcasts, stories about movies, other crud I don’t want) that I scan first and mass-mark-as-read. I have topic-selective “feeds” like the Ukraine war, climate change, etc.

In fact I read my feeds almost exclusively using these topic filters, and only at the end look at the remaining unread. Much more convenient. It’s especially handy if you read a bunch of, say, NYT feeds as they cross post a lot. So I’ll see four or more NYT articles that are the same but not all posted at the same time and were posted in business, technology, science, etc. I just read one (or mine) and easily nuke the rest right away.