To give you an example, when I fire up my RSS reader ~90% of the entries I see are either from BBC or Reddit.
Do you have any tip, aside from organizing feeds into categories or using "proxy" services like hnrss[1]? Maybe I should simply unsubscribe from noisy feeds...
[1]: https://hnrss.github.io/
I did this a few weeks ago and it's been great.
BBC World News would be a good one to start with, I imagine. Bookmark the homepage and then unsubscribe from the feed. Click the bookmark once or twice a day, or whenever. Click through to full articles of stuff that interests you. Rinse and repeat.
Keep doing this for each busy feed as needed. Eventually you'll be left with just the quiet feeds.
I have also subscribed to certain repositories on GitHub to read the release notes.
There's no feed that drowns the other because they are separated.
1 - Sort by feed: I can quickly skim through a high volume feed without missing a low volume feed
2 - Sort from old to new: especially if it’s a news feed, I can quickly scroll past all the old stuff that isn’t relevant anymore
So my feeds are basically:
Folder 1
- Feed 1 articles old to new
- Feed 2 articles old to new
Folder 2
- Feed 3 articles old to new
- Etc.
3 - This is more tricky/high maintenance, but filter out irrelevant content. For example, I follow some Apple blogs and for all of those, if the title contains “review”, my feed reader (Feedbin) will mark it as read so I don’t even see the item.