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RSS and Atom for digital minimalists

Victor Dorneanu on June 13, 2022

Digital Minimalism A few days after I have started working on this post, I begun reading Cal Newport’s Digital Minimalism book and quick...
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Tommy Oldfield

I read Digital Minimalism and ended up going down the RSS route too! My feeds update once a day and I've stopped habitually checking Reddit and Instagram because of it.

Since you wrote this post, is this still your primary way of consuming content?

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Victor Dorneanu

I'm glad to read about your trajectory which is pretty similar to mine. I'm still using RSS for almost everything (including Reddit and Youtube as well).

However, the problem with Reddit is that I cannot keep up with all the (some are really interesting) comments for specific threads. Currently I'm struggling with GNUS (some mail client for Emacs capable of fetching Reddit threads) and from time to time I do have a look there.