Wireburst: RSS feeds in Discord, because email is the devil 0 ▲ Cruftbox: My Box of Cruft 1 hour ago · Tech · hide · 0 comments I have a complicated relationship with information. I want a lot of it: what’s happening in tech, the world, culture, and the corners of the internet I care about. What I don’t want is my inbox turning into a war zone. Email newsletters are the devil. I don’t care how good your content is. The moment you land in my inbox, you’re competing with shopping receipts, meeting requests, and shipping notifications. That’s not a reading environment. That’s a stress environment. I love RSS. It’s clean, it’s chronological, it’s manageable. No algorithm deciding what I see. No engagement bait. It’s just the things I subscribed to, in the order they arrived. A lot of the newsletters I actually want to read, The Verge, The New Thing, The Pragmatic Engineer, all publish RSS feeds alongside their email versions. The problem isn’t RSS. It’s RSS readers. Most of them are designed for completionists, with every article becoming something you’re expected to process and mark as read. That’s never been how… No comments yet. Log in to reply on the Fediverse. Comments will appear here.