A bit to the side: I don't subscribe to any lists at the moment. Should I start? Is it better than just checking the sites I care about once in a while? How do you personally use it?
I used to consume most of my stuff through RSS but RSS seems largely dead unfortunately. It provides me with a nice balance between tracking (lots of) things but being able to pull that in when needed and keep it separate from other mediums like email. Subscribing to mailing lists usually ends up to me adding filters that move them to a different folder that I check less.
So for me, I subscribe to 3 or so newsletters. If I find myself not reading one weekly or monthly when it comes, I unsubscribe since it's not something I'm currently interested in. This avoids me ignoring mailing lists or newsletters in general so those that I do read actually add value. HN I check on a daily basis, it's a tab in my browser. But that's about it.
> I used to consume most of my stuff through RSS but RSS seems largely dead unfortunately.
Why do you say this? I start my day with my RSS reader and the only site I follow that doesn't really support RSS is HN.
Because that has been my experience?
> I start my day with my RSS reader and the only site I follow that doesn't really support RSS is HN.
Awesome, happy for you. I wish that was the case here. For most of my news sources (which aren't tech) no RSS feed exists. Same for a number of newsletters I'm interested in. They exist in plain HTML format but there's no RSS feed to speak of, not even of the archive.
However, I've recently ran into RSS-Bridge[1] which I'm hoping means that I'll be able to generate RSS feeds out of some stuff and get back to consuming most of my information that way.