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?
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
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.
Yup. I’ve been using RSS for ages and have almost given up all social media now to move to RSS. I want very detailed control of my feeds and especially want to be able to block key words (I want to block all USA-centric news, gossip, sports news, etc).
Pluma app (Android) was best for a phone based solution.
I’ve been moving to more FOSS options. Now I use Read You (f-droid) and sync this with my home server Tiny Tiny RSS deployment for sync. TTRSS does a great job of blocking things before pushing feeds to my phone.
It has been great to see more professional content. Social media feeds have always been trash and are now increasingly trash+slop. User comments are also just a toxic cesspool mostly and I don’t want that. I would recommend RSS to everyone. Take control. Reject the algorithms. It is way better than even going to news sites. News sites serve stories on their front page according to their own algorithms. RSS sends you news stories chronologically. It has really improved my relationship with news. RSS is also the best way to follow webcomics.
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.
Curious to see if any of you use RSS and if so how do you use it?
I do use it. I think I use it like I always did: as a way to ‘aggregate’ multiple sources into a single rss reader which is Newsboat, in my case, a cli RSS reader (I do all my online activities on a computer, not on the phone).
I will often not bother reading a blog that doesn’t give me an RSS feed
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’m using Nextcloud News, dunno if it fits your bill but I find it excellent.
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 .
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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.
Yeah, use them for Feedly or whatever the FOSS app is for news.
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 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 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
