¬ just serendipity 🍀 (not just serendipity)

One of the best features of miniflux rolled out this year¹ was the ability to globally block feed items that match certain patterns.

Previously it was possible to do so only in an individual feed basis.

The Miniflux documentation:

Global filters are defined on the Settings page and are automatically applied to all articles from all feeds.

My usage is like this:

EntryTitle=(?i)(Apple TV|\bCrypto\b|iPad)

To add new terms, I add more regular expressions with an or (|). Whenever the term is a common substring, I add word boundaries with \b. The (?i) is to make the matching case insensitive.

This approach helps me fight against information overload.

There are some people I like to follow via Miniflux, but I am simply not interested in some of their kinds of posts.

For example, there are excellent bloggers like John Gruber and Nick Heer, but they post way too much about Apple. There are some classes of Apple products I am simply not interested in, because I do not own any of them, nor plan to e.g. Apple TV or iPad or Vision Pro. A global block list is a much more effective way to address mass filtering out of posts than per-feed ones.