Ask HN: How to fight doomscrolling habits with RSS?

5 points by LukasWeber 6mo ago ↗ HN

I know many HN users love RSS, but I never used it. However, I'm annoyed by myself for doomscrolling too much (mosly those fucked up YouTube Shorts and News Landing Pages) and thought that I want to limit the content I consume to self-selected stuff. Does anyone have good resources for an absolute RSS noob where to start? How did you start? are there different approaches to RSS? what is good RSS software?

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emschwartz 6mo ago ↗

If you want to try filtering your RSS feeds based on topics you’re interested in, you should give Scour (https://scour.ing) a try. I was never a huge RSS user because I ended up with too much of the infinite unread email feeling. I built Scour to help find the signal among the noise.