Hate "The Algorithm?" RSS Is One of the Tools You've Been Looking For

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I use Feeder, but still end up doom scrolling reddit way too to often. Discovery is the hard part for me, and I don't spend much time trying to find good content. For me, this is the "personal responsibility" side of the coin and requires effort. I suspect this is common, and it's what algorithmic social media exploits.

For me it is a mix. I mostly get my content from feeds. But I also aggressively prune my subscriptions so that I catch up, I don't have so much that I fall behind.

When I do catch up in happy to burn a bit of time on Hacker News, Lobsters or Lemmy. But if I like an article I usually subscribe to the feed. So this discovery is an important part of my system.

The algorithmic options can turn into doom scrolling if I'm really bored or similar but since I am not checking too often to start and I am decent at identifying it it isn't a problem for me.

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