I use my own service FeedMail to follow feeds and send me email. (Alternatives are available, but obviously my own service fits my needs very well.)
Most of my feeds like tech blogs, some news, comics, some project releases get sent to a special address that gets filtered into a folder called “Not Important”. I then read this folder whenever I have downtime.
I also subscribe to a lot of channels on YouTube, PeerTube, Odyssee and similar and they go to a folder called “Videos”. I also have a couple newsletters from authors that go to this folder as they contain videos. Similarly I look at this folder whenever I have some time to watch videos.
I also have a handful of feeds that go to my inbox like WebMebtions of my blog and Reddit replies. These are the only ones that actually notify me.
This works for me because I actually look at everything I am subscribed to. I can see that it wouldn’t work as well for stuff that you just skip the new stuff from time-to-time. (Although I guess you can just configure a folder to delete items after a week or month and it would probably be a decent setup.) I like to keep my signal-to-noise ratio high and while I often subscribe to new blogs to try them out, if I see if they are often posting things that aren’t particularly interesting I am quick to hit the unsubscribe button.
I like email because I have an existing account that is synchronized across all my devices. I can also use powerful filtering if needed (although at the moment I’m not actually doing any filtering here, just category filtering in FeedMail. I also like that I can receive newsletters in the same way which makes it easy to use newsletters if no feed is available. (Although I prefer feeds where available so that they don’t get my email address and they tend to have less tracking.)
I use my email client to follow feeds.
This works for me because I actually look at everything I am subscribed to. I can see that it wouldn’t work as well for stuff that you just skip the new stuff from time-to-time. (Although I guess you can just configure a folder to delete items after a week or month and it would probably be a decent setup.) I like to keep my signal-to-noise ratio high and while I often subscribe to new blogs to try them out, if I see if they are often posting things that aren’t particularly interesting I am quick to hit the unsubscribe button.
I like email because I have an existing account that is synchronized across all my devices. I can also use powerful filtering if needed (although at the moment I’m not actually doing any filtering here, just category filtering in FeedMail. I also like that I can receive newsletters in the same way which makes it easy to use newsletters if no feed is available. (Although I prefer feeds where available so that they don’t get my email address and they tend to have less tracking.)