I use FreshRSS to manage all of my RSS feeds. It is wonderful. Maybe the best thing I use on a daily basis. I adore being able to use the internet in this way, for many reasons. I’ve talked about my eternal love of RSS before, so I don’t need to get all gushy over it here. But damn is it good.

But I have a problem. Back in August, I participated in Blaugust 2025 along with a couple hundred of my fellow bloggers. My silly ass decided to subscribe to every single participant’s RSS feed. Now, I’ve spent months weeding them out to just those that I’m actually interested in. But I’ve found a ton of new content thanks to that mass subscribe.

The biggest issue I now face with my RSS life is that I have a ton of favorites and no way to ever get through them all. Now admittedly about 70% of these are fanfiction stories that I’d like to read someday. But I have almost 300 favorites, which doesn’t seem like a lot, but it really is.

I keep telling myself to start going through them, and I do from time to time, but mostly I’m busy trying to get through the new stuff. I have almost 4000 unread RSS entries right now. Most of those could go away and I wouldn’t be upset (especially the ones from Reddit), but inevitably, I’ll spend most of my RSS time on the new stuff and the favorites/to-be-read-later entries will be neglected another day.

I don’t have a solution or a plan for this problem. I’d rather ask those of you who use RSS, what do you do to keep the saved articles to a minimum? The solution may be to just not read everything that comes in, but my brain rebels at that thought.