DeconBlue

I have 163 current feeds covering a couple dozen topics. I use elfeed on emacs to read and manage the list. The filtering and sorting rules provided by elfeed along with bookmark management under Org-Mode/Org-Roam have solved all of my current needs.

I'm definitely not trying to be snarky, but don't all RSS readers do this when you "Sort by time descending?"

If I'm misunderstanding your question, please provide more details.

I use elfeed on emacs (https://github.com/skeeto/elfeed) with the time descending sort, and it does exactly what you state in the question. The newest feeds float to the top and the older ones sort to the bottom.

If I let too many build up, I simply mark them as read and they disappear from the list. They aren't deleted, and I can search for them at a later date.

In your case above on not wanting to "Mark as read", elfeed has an filter ex. @6-months-ago that when a feed reaches that age, it disappears from the list. A smaller time scale like @2-weeks-ago might be closer to what you are looking for.

Of course, all of this text is irrelevant if you aren't using the emacsOS tools and don't want to mess with setting them up. But since the RSS spec was invented, I've not worked with any of the readers that fit my personal approach as well as elfeed.

Good luck.

In these kinds of sessions are you using a ChatGPT-X tool or something like GitHub Co-Pilot. I haven't started using these tools, but it does sound like there might be a significant benefit in some use cases.

I guess I am a little biased against the AI tools also as I've made a successful 34 year career in software development without using those tools, but I'm also aware that overnight, the world can change.

Not an automatic option, but it works for me.

emacs org-mode + org-cliplink + macro bound to F5. F5 -> insert org-mode style link with URL and Title. Then I can add as much description or tags as needed. If full text is needed, I might pull the site up with eww and copy/extract the text into org entry or add to org-roam for future processing.

New bookmark file per day synced via self hosted Git repo accessed over TailScale.

Manual, but full control and only available to me.

I have had this issue for a very long time.

My first recommendation is if you want to watch potentially weird/out of the usual videos is to right click the video and "Open in new Private Window". It seems that the new request keeps the one-off from becoming part of your watched record. Also, the private window for topical searches. I made the mistake of clicking on a Diablo IV video, and 2 weeks later there are still 10-12 "recommended" videos in my feed.

As a previous commenter mentioned, I have all of my subscriptions in an RSS feeder so only new posts show up in my filtered list (without thumbnails). This allows quick scanning of titles to see if there is anything of interest. Then I can simply directly open the link without going to the YouTube landing page.

I have not see any better recommendation algorithms.

My solution is just to use multiple accounts for different queries, and a private browsing account for general YouTube browsing.

If I find something remarkable, I can always copy the link into my main account for watch history/recommendations.

I just wish I could toggle the "Topic" tags at the top of the screen. I accidentally clicked a video link on an Tesla site and now fully 25% of my home page is Tesla related. If I could turn off the tag, then my homepage could return to normal, or at least I would expect it to.