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Why Everyone Should Still Use an RSS Reader in 2024 (lifehacker.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 4 points 11 months ago

I highly recommend NewsBlur if you don’t want to host your own.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Inoreader, FTW!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

When I switched from Reddit to Lemmy, I started using Feeder for news to fill that gap. I think my podcast app on Linux also uses RSS.

I also used Feeder with Nitter for a while to keep up with friends posting on Twitter (I never really got into Twitter myself). Though that stopped working at some point.

So yeah, RSS definitely still has uses today.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

When Google’s shut down I switched to Feedly. They even imported my Google settings so there was no downtime. I’ve been paying for their Pro version ever since. It’s a really good app!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

newsboat is also quite stable as a RSS reader. if you like command line

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

If anyone is using an apple device, NetNewsWire is open source and is dead simple. No extra features, no premium tier, can sync with iCloud or self hosted servers, and the reader mode can be applied source-wide.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

On IOS try feeeed

https://apps.apple.com/de/app/feeeed-rss-reader-and-more/id1600187490

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Does anybody have any recommendations for FOSS RSS readers with actual content surfacing features? So many RSS feeds are full of junk (this is particularly a problem with feeds with wildly disparate posting frequencies) and I've always felt they'd be a lot more useful if people were putting more effort into a modern way to sort through extremely dense feeds.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

i find it frustrating if i can't immediately tell the poster of a site their content is wrong or sucks or is generally bad. therefore social media is my only option, because the world must know my valuable contributions.....🤌🤌

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