To not see ads in articles and still see at least headlines of what is going in the world. I’ll sub to many news outlets for stuff I don’t even read just because much of my online presence is fairly absent of algorithms and that has resulted in me not knowing what people are talking about too many times, even if it is stupid. Sometimes a single YouTube title and thumb nail is all I need to see to know something happened in the world. So this way the things I want to see, and things I don’t want to see are separated, so I have to actively to go out of my way to look at it. Its not blasting my mind palace 24/7 will bullshit every time I want to look at a picture of a cat or whatever.

I also use it to add YouTube channels I don’t watch, but again want to keep up with trends so I have a large list of popular channels, and ones that I know will make a video about clickbait nonsense. So they are the canarie in the coal mine for me on certain issues/topics.

That way none of it gets loaded on my phone my RSS server handles it, I can view it from there. Also I don’t need to load up 700+ channels every time I refresh my newpipe subscription on my phone. I also have sit down and view channels separated to my pipepipe profile on my PC. The channels on my phone are more listening/podcast like experiences.

I also subscribed to a bunch of small things, gaming projects to get updates, or comics, etc but they get buried because I don’t seperate my feed and its been less useful. Its just not in my habit of checking my RSS feed for that kind of stuff. It used to be more useful for fun stuff when reddit let you use it with RSS but I think they stopped that? Its feels like you can turn less random news pages into RSS feeds these days too. So yeah now its mostly kind of a boring place that aggregates all of my news and world info.