RSS is my jam

As of writing I subscribe to approximately 100 or so RSS feeds, 70ish of which are personal blogs and the rest are a mix of news and social.

I only do social to the extent that I follow the RSS feeds of a select few Bluesky and Fediverse accounts in an RSS reader.

So how I read those feeds is kind of important to me. I’m interested whenever new RSS readers pop up and currently there is some renewed activity in this space.

Historically I have spent the most time using either Unread or new Reeder. Both different but both great in different ways.

Some time ago I stumbled across Sublime Feed. A delightful web app that puts actual reading back into feed reading. A beautifully designed stream/ river of posts and an equally considered reading mode provides a wonderfully calm reading experience.

No unread count. No notifications. No inbox-style completion anxiety. Currently my go-to feed reader for long form blog posts.

For skimming my social feeds I can’t find a better solution than Reeder but it’s still a very good all round RSS solution.

The onIy competition to Sublime Feed I can find is Terry Godier’s new iOS app Current. Of course I’ve taken it for a spin and, while initially dismissive, and I still have some reservations about it over-complicating things, there is something there… Let’s just say the jury is still out.

Another recent release is Manton Reece’s Inkwell. Available only to micro.blog users it struck me as basic but solid, and really only comes into its own as a companion service to micro.blog.

So, in summary, I highly recommend Sublime Feed for actual reading long form blog posts and new Reeder for digesting practically anything with an RSS feed.

Happy reading.