One way to achieve it is using newsletters. My approach, now, is to get delivered to me only the information I want to have.

We have been silently converted from information seekers to information dumpsters. Why? I am not following thedevlife, why should I see their posts? We open Instagram, and we see “suggested posts” often between two images uploaded by our contacts. You were not bombarded with a bunch of “related” pages, images, or articles.īut now we check our Facebook timeline to see updates from our friends, and then we are overloaded by posts we do not really care about. You either stop there or search for something else. If you needed information you had to search for it. I remember once wondering why I was still awake in the middle of the night watching a video of a cat cleaning itself. I find myself too many times lost in endless feeds, or ending up on a random video on YouTube after hours of watching other random videos. In several feed readers (e.g.One of my new year’s resolutions is to change the way I consume information from the Internet. The trouble is that only the technically-proficient will end up using it, so it’s cyclical. I think it might be a result of product teams convincing themselves that RSS is something used only by the technically-proficient, so it’s put in a place where that group can find it. I don’t know that it’s deliberate - in the sense that they’re trying to discourage the use of RSS. YouTube isn’t the only website that buries its RSS feeds in this manner. Too bad there’s no way to do this for Twitter. The combined URL + Channel ID is the Feed URL of that YouTube channel, and can be added to my feed reader. Instead of letting the YouTube decide which videos it wants to show me, I am watching only the videos I want to see by subscribing to my favorite content creators via RSS. In 2020 I am watching less stupid on YouTube by skipping the algorithm.

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