So every morning my routine is that I wake up, brush my teeth, and pour out a big bowl of muesli. Then I sit down at the kitchen table and catch up on my RSS feeds in Feedly whilst I’m eating my breakfast. I’ve been doing this most days since I first discovered RSS feeds back in the mid-2000s.
I even bought a lifetime subscription to Feedly when they put out the offer and needed a cash injection after Google Reader was shutdown. This subscription gives me access to mute filters so I can stop seeing articles about stuff that doesn’t interest me. For example, I recently added a mute filter for “Prime Day” because I had zero interest in seeing certain sites desperately peddling referral links to more needless crap.
So, on feed that I’ve followed ever since it launched is The Verge. They’ve generally been a fairly solid source of tech reporting, as well as some reporting beyond the tech sphere, even if there are a few topics that I find they overdo…
Over the years they’ve been fairly insistent on reporting any news about Elon Musk, something which I have basically ignored ever since I worked out that I have zero interest in him. However, when Musk bought Twitter, The Verge seemed to go into a bit of a reporting frenzy.
Pretty much every move he, the troll that he is, made was reported on in breathless detail, or in self-deprecating “I know he’s just looking for attention but I just had to comment” type articles.
Anyway, I finally had enough and decided it was time to mute Musk from my RSS feeds. I just don’t care what he does. To me he’s the tech equivalent of Trump – insofar as media outlets seem to be trapped in a weird sort of death spiral of clickbait you-couldn’t-make-this-up headlines which they probably know all too well are exactly what he wants.
It had been a while since I had used the mute filter functionality and I couldn’t remember where it was in Feedly. I tapped on the search tab on the phone and was confronted by this screen:
Oh how ironic – Feedly use the very person I want to mute as an example of how to use search in their app 😂
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