Blogger discovers this cool thing called “RSS”.

  • @evasive_chimpanzee
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    34 hours ago

    If it’s open source, you could perhaps tinker with the algorithm. My main desires for rss feeds are:

    • a way to filter out fluff affiliate link articles (e.g., 8 best gadgets on sale for prime day)
    • a way to cluster articles on the same topic (i don’t really need to read 5 articles about the same news item)

    Any clue if nunti could do that?

    • @plenipotentprotogod
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      13 hours ago

      Man, I feel you on the affiliate link fluff. I actually ended up unsubscribing from the Popular Mechanics and Popular Science feeds because the signal to noise ratio was so bad.

      The creator of Nunti provided a very good primer on the algorithm design here. Basically, you indicate to the app whether you like or dislike an article and then it does some keyword extraction in the background and tries to show you similar articles in the future. I suppose you might be able to dislike a bunch of the fluff and hope the filter picks up on it, but it isn’t really designed to support the kind of rules that would completely purge a certain type of content from your feed.

      • @evasive_chimpanzee
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        11 hour ago

        Oh wow, they really did a good job of explaining it. It’s not too complex. I think it probably would be able to filter out some of the fluff.