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 service is that?
Rss-bridge
Probably rss-bridge, I gave up in it after a few months. Constant failures.
If those failures are for reddit, the trick is to pretend you’re a Tor browser (it’s deep in the github issues), then it works fine again.
Did Reddit kill RSS? I remember a year or two back I could grab a feed from a subreddit pretty easily.
They still got it.
Nope, it’s still got RSS, but it’s flaky. Rss-bridge let’s you, for example, say give me the posts over 150 from the top day, It also pulls the jpg instead of a watered webp, at least for single images. I find it can let me keep the few niche things I care about down to a reasonable number consistently. The built in reddit RSS will shove 25 per day down your throat when you ask for the top 5 of the day.
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).
I got fed up with Feedly and moved onto Inoreader. I’ve been happy since.
I am using Liferea
newsflash and feeder.
Miniflux. Super easy to self host.
iOS has a really great one from a passionate dev
i use it to read news - love rss.
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
Ya never stopped using it. Trimmed some feeds as publications come and go. Miss the golden days but holy cow it’s still good.
have been since …a long time. Google Reader then they shit canned it and still on Feedly because of multi device support.
i would love a FOSS RSS reader with nextcloud multidevice support, like Joplin has for notes,if anyone has a suggestion
Mastodon etal all have RSS feeds fyi
I use it for news link aggregation in Feedly and for pulling podcasts into Podcast Addict
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.
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 commafeed it’s open source and free and super useful. I have news sites I follow but I also added food blogs I like to save the sites. In this AI world now, I have started to self cultivate my feeds. I would admit I’m addicted to the scroll but since deleting reddit and twitter, and never on Instagram, the rss feed is useful to stay updated on stuff and get my scrolling fix still
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
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.
I mainly use it for my country’s national broadcasting site’s news. It’s basically the only source I get news from.
