Taming my intimidating RSS reader queue

I talked in last week’s weeknote about how I was struggling with getting my Miniflux reader situation under control, and what I was attempting to identify the problem. Today, I came across this blog post from Michał Sapka (via this Fediverse post) talking about the exact feeling, and choosing to entirely drop RSS and rely on manually checking up on bookmarks instead. I think that was quite saddening to read, that the thing they had switched to as a way to get out of mindless algorithmic scrolling had ended up feeling like that itself. I’m personally not quite at the giving up stage, and over the weekend ended up making a bunch of changes within Miniflux that have significantly improved my experience already. I’m going to preempt the weeknote and say this: the whole data driven analysis approach I was trying out last week was a complete waste of time and mental faculties. I had misdiagnosed my problem of not reading things as being tied to individual feeds which wasn’t quite accurate.…