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Whatever the linguistic details, one of the main roles of RSS is to supply directly to you a steady stream of updates from a website. Every new article published on that site is served up in a list that can be interpreted by an RSS reader.

Unfortunately, RSS is no longer how most of us consume "content." (Google famously killed its beloved Google Reader more than a decade ago.) It's now the norm to check social media or the front pages of many different sites to see what's new. But I think RSS still has a place in your life: Especially for those who don't want to miss anything or have algorithms choosing what they read, it remains one of the best ways to navigate the internet. Here's a primer on what RSS can (still!) do for you, and how to get started with it, even in this late era of online existence.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

I'm gonna shill for FreshRSS and Feed Me. Been a fantastic combination so far.

Self hosting FreshRSS allows me to curate shit I care about. Even better, it's private aggregation. Sometimes though, I miss the conversation around these topics. For that, Lemmy exists.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I'm using Feeder app and it's the best. Others are resource heavy and light apps won't load the whole story instead redirects. Which is a problem. Feeder on the other hand, free open source privacy respecting light app which shows the whole story in the app itself. Very very useful and not a disturbing one.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I love TinyTinyRSS (self hosted) and lire for iOS which syncs with it. Very powerful setup. I have issues with overusing social media sites so I have sites like Lemmy do the "Top Week" and so on for areas I'm interested in.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

So I just downloaded feeder (edit okay I made a lite app with Hermit) but does anyone had a good way to setup a default set of feeds?

Just something to get started. I'll play around with it later but maybe someone can save me some time...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You can import a bunch of rss feeds at once if they are saved as a .opml file, and you can find a big ol' list of 'em at https://github.com/plenaryapp/awesome-rss-feeds

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Exactly the sort of thing I was looking for! Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Another Feedly user, here. Definitely the way to go after the death of Google Reader.

My only concern with it is that I'd prefer any advertisement revenue to go to the original website with the content I want. Fortunately, if the website's ads aren't intrusive, I just disable ad block on that site and click through to it, giving them the views they need to keep going.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (10 children)

RSS is great. Podcasts and webcomics are easier to follow with RSS.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

i remember in high school (2010s) i tried using RSS but increasingly the feed wouldn't even have the article, just the title and the link so you'd have to visit their website. especially obnoxious because my obnoxious school district filtered approx 90% of the internet (for shocking reasons like 'forums' or 'TV/entertainment' or 'sports' or 'media')

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Does anyone have a list of sites with good RSS feeds? News sites preferably - I’m having a hard time finding some of them.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Somebody else in this thread linked a Github repo listing "Awesome RSS Feeds", they have categories by country and by topic.

Otherwise, this is the method I use to find RSS feeds from websites that don't have a link/button to their feed (copy/pasted from my other comment in this thread):

You can often find RSS feeds by checking the page’s source (on Firefox: right-click and “View Page Source”) and using Ctrl+F to search, there’s usually a URL somewhere. Keywords to search for: “feed”, “RSS”, “xml”, “atom”. For example, if I go to this community’s page on lemmy.world, I can Ctrl+F “feed” on the page source to find https://lemmy.world/feeds/c/technology.xml

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

I don't know what client you're using, but Inoreader usually finds the RSS feed even if the webpage does not link to it

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (4 children)

As someone who has only dipped his toe into this tech, and into podcasts, for that matter, what's the best android app to use for this?

I don't really want to use Spotify, etc. Is there a preferred independent and/or FOSS that people like?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

I have an instance of freshrss feeding into feedme and it's awesome. I went with feedme because it's got a built in mobilizer that you can customize if the feed doesn't have the whole article content.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

I use Feeder for RSS feeds

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I started fiddling with a self hosted rss thing but never got around to putting the app on my new phone. I might give a different one a try sometime it was kinda basic.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Definitely try "Read You"! It utilises Material You, has a sick UI and the dev is really nice. I think there are a lot of features, but I've just left almost everything on default.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Lifehacker is still around? Haven't seen that name in years

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

RSS is my everyday goto, I'm using QuiteRSS with filters for specific words, really neat one.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Used Google Reader and now use Feedly. I go ahead and pay for Feedly since I like it enough to do so.

I can't imagine not using RSS to consume stuff. It just makes things so much easier.

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