From the beginning I have thought of “Feedly” much like a cleaner and more modern RSS feed. You could also see it as more of a formal version of Reddit. Essentially you start out by making lists of sources that you would like to hear from and group them by interest. For example, you could have one feed about music news, one about technology, and one from major news outlets. I made one combining classic major news sources and technology or science news sources.
Typically, I get about six articles from each feed that I have created for myself and they are often a random but evenly assorted group of topics. Half of my feed contains articles that come from major media outlet news, and the other half tends to come from sites like Wired or Gizmodo. The articles are also not summarized or previewed in any way; typically you click on the headline that you see in Feedly and it will take you to a thumbnail for the article that links to the news outlet’s site directly. In many cases this works out, but in some cases that i have encountered so far, feedly does not allow you to bypass the “free article viewing limit” that many of these sites have, meaning that if there is a source that I particularly enjoy and I am constantly clicking on their links, after a while I will only be able to see the headlines and not read in depth. In my eyes that is a major drawback because if I am constantly looking at the same sources because those are the ones that I trust or have selected, over time my options are going to be more and more limited, possibly pushing me towards outlets that I do not particularly prefer.