I know I'm trailing edge (quarter century late?) but I just installed an RSS reader, and found that it cut down on my click-click-click immensely: ("OK, I've finished skimming/reading the latest batch of incoming bitstreams, now time for me to create some fresh outgoing bits").
Nice! I have tried Mastodon but keep getting sucked back into Twitter, hence the 30 minute daily limit. Perhaps I should give RSS a go as well. Can you recommend a reader?
I'm using https://www.newsboat.org , but not for any good reason: only because it came to hand when an HN discussion of a fork inspired me. That said, I've had no reason to look for anything better.
On an MBP, I'm using:
browser "open %u"
show-read-feeds no
auto-reload yes
reload-time 60
macro m mark-feed-read ; quit ; reload-all
macro k open ; goto-url 2 ; quit
for hourly polling; when I swap to its screen, I only ever consult 1 virtual feed:
"query:Unread Articles:unread = \"yes\""
then use either 'o' or ',k' (for HN articles, to open comments) to load whatever looks interesting into tabs (in the browser on a different screen), then ',my' to mark all as read and re-poll.
cf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operant_conditioning_chamber#/...