I want to read more and scroll less. The problem is I find a lot of good things to read by scrolling.
Sill is a potential solution. The free site connects to your Bluesky and/or Mastodon accounts and shows you the articles shared most by the people you follow on those networks.
After signing up, and connecting all of your accounts, you’ll see a simple, finite timeline with nothing but links to articles from the past 24 hours. There are handy buttons for sharing, copying, and bookmarking the link, or you can just open it. You can also see the posts sharing the article, if you want, by expanding the yellow dropdown below the post.
But maybe you don’t want to look at yet another website every day. Reasonable, and likely the reason for what I think is Sill’s best feature: the Daily Digest. Turn this feature on and you can get an email every day featuring the ten most mentioned links on your timelines. There’s also an RSS feed option, which is perfect if you’re trying to keep news out of your inbox.
I’ve been using this for a couple weeks and generally find a couple good things to read every day. The quality of the articles you see is going to depend on the people you’ve followed, so you’ll have to do some curating on that end—though Sill does let you mute specific people and publications. The service also won’t show you anything new if you already religiously check those services. However, if you’re only occasionally checking in, but still like having interesting things to read, this could be a great compromise.
Sill is free to use and completely open source. It’s offered by developer Tyler Fisher.