Then your solution, instead of avoiding RSS altogether, is quite simple: “Mark As Read”
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Do you have an RSS reader you recommend for using on the iPad and a feed source?
this would drive me insane. like, literally.
This is why I don’t have Twitter, or Instagram, or Facebook…
You don’t need one. But it can help you get more value out of it (if you’re that type of person).
Reeder 4 recently went free for Mac and iOS (meaning Reeder 5 is almost certainly on its way). It’s an outstanding app.
Most people would recommend Inoreader, Feedly or Feedly - all good.
I use an an inexpensive RSS service called NewsBlur mostly out of inertia - I like it but it’s not one of the major ones and it’s a little clunky (although it has a surprisingly useful iOS app for itself).
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Only if you lacked self-control
As noted above, I’m with YOU on that ! 
I have them but so limited as to be meaningless. I have 5 immediate family members on FB, that’s it. I only use my organization’s Twitter and Instagram by having our communications department post on my behalf—once a month or less. I guess that means I’m not a SM influencer?
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I’ve recently gone all in on FeedBin and NetNewsWire. FeedBin lets me generate an email address I can have newsletters go to, so that those things don’t end up in my inbox but instead end up in my reader - as the first of those emails are due today I’ve yet to see what it looks like but I’ve heard good things!
Feedbin is a good service. It’s one of the three I meant to recommend earlier, but I accidentally typed Feedly twice.
NewsBlur handles newsletters too, but via email redirect; the dev prefers for users to have ‘one source of truth’ for all incoming emails (which also makes it easier to leave the RSS service if necessary).
Ohhhhhh.
I’m a Feedly user (with a grandfathered account) and I’m mostly happy with what I have, but I just took a look at Feedbin and I’m feeling the pull.
My current set-up ticks 2/3 boxes: RSS via Feedly, newsletters to Feedly via Kill-The-Newsletter, all piped through Reeder. Feedbin would do both natively AND handle subscriptions to Twitter, plus it works with Reeder which I have no intention of giving up.
One more subscription? Maybe…
Does anyone know if it’s possible to trigger an automation by starring an item in Feedbin? For example, to automatically save a starred item to Evernote?
Feedbin and Feedly are great services, but one of the things that keeps me with NewsBlur is a custom feed (which you can view on the web or in their own app but not a normal RSS reader) to bubble up ‘Infrequent Site Stories’ - something that becomes increasingly more valuable the more feeds you have. One of the things I love about RSS is not having to remember to visit rarely updated sites but when you have tons of feeds and don’t read them all infrequently-updated sites can too easily get swept away with the Mark All As Read button.
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