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A few months ago I got into RSS for the first time really as I started to find twitter overwhelming. I used to follow blogs on Twitter but many will re-post the same article multiple times for reach which is annoying, and seeing news mixed in with what friends are saying became jarring. So, RSS to the rescue!
I think the key to RSS is a good RSS reader and service. I went with the open source macOS RSS reader NetNewsWire and chose to subscribe to Feedbin for sync to NetNewsWire iOS as well.
One bonus of using Feedbin is it has "actions" you can configure, so I've set up several to mark posts read when certain keywords are in a post. AKA a mute filter.
Another benefit of RSS is many larger blogs offer separate feeds of their different sections. So I may only subscribe to a blog's technology section and not have to sift through the rest.
So now I have a slower paced curated feed of blogs I like :)