I’ve recently got back to using an RSS feeds for most of my online content and have more appreciation now than as a teen pre early brid app when I kept up with gaming news. Like most of us here on Lemmy, Ive been getting off reddit but the only thing that kept me using it was the city subreddit. Initially I was using it for The Verge and a couple other tech and science sites which replaced those subreddits for me but out of bordem and curiosity I realized some local news events and ramblings websites convert almost perfectly in rss which replaces my use of reddit altogether. Substacks seem to work on RSS as well.
Curious to see if any of you use RSS and if so how do you use it?
Never stopped. Now I also host a service that can convert some sites to an RSS feed when they don’t have one.
What RSS readers do people like? I used to love Google Reader!
I’m using Feeder on android at the moment. No issues so far
FreshRSS and CapyReader (synced to FreshRSS).
iOS has a really great one from a passionate dev
I got fed up with Feedly and moved onto Inoreader. I’ve been happy since.
https://github.com/spacecowboy/Feeder auto tags articeles as read as i pass on the feed. can predownload crap in the back. ui is minimal, but waaay better in functions compared to the rest i found on fdroid.
+1 for Feeder, you can sort and order, filter on various things (read, recently read, new, etc) shows you an overview of all feeds or individual feeds, blocklists, battery saving tools, etc.
i started isng it again. its a great way to keep up with news rather than what the algorithm tells you you should see. i highly suggest to follow your local councils news feed too
I use RSS Guard on my PC (works on Mac, Linux and Windows). Comes with powerful regex filtering, so I can really curate my feeds.
RSS seems kinda oldschool, but it’s still the best way I’ve found of keeping track of the things I care about. No fuss or social media bullshit, just information.
Ya never stopped using it. Trimmed some feeds as publications come and go. Miss the golden days but holy cow it’s still good.
I mostly use it to monitor individual feeds for chatty, talkradio-esque mp3 files that I then download and play from my personal devices. I’ve taken to calling them “podcasts” ;)
I use FeedFlow for a local beekeeping guy’s blog - he posts by email, so having an RSS feed means I don’t have to go ratching through looking for a particular article, I can just scroll.
I converted lots of my newsletters to rss with kill-the-newsletter.com . When i am in the mood i check the categories (art, shopping…) in my rss-reader for discounts or updates. I also added ebay-sales of prints from my favourite artists with rssbay-net .
Thank you for this. I set it up a couple days ago, prefer morning brews newsletters there vs my email so much better even though most the features don’t work. The Elements are ad pmacements anyways the text and links are what matters
Yeah, use them for Feedly or whatever the FOSS app is for news.
I mainly use it for my country’s national broadcasting site’s news. It’s basically the only source I get news from.
Yep. Feedly since like 2010
Yes. I’ve had a bare metal setup of tiny tiny RSS setup for ages. I think it changed maintainer at some point, but still gets updates. The thing’s been purring along all this time.
And a lot of modern websites still have an RSS feed. Not all, unfortunately, but it keeps up.
No. Why would I bother. It is obsolete. Maybe I will also crank start my car.
