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This is a honest question. I have two RSS services hosted on my server, and I don't see the point. RSS is by nature distributed, and subscribing to my own server just makes the source of all news being the same. What is the advantage? What do people use it for?

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[-] conrad82@lemmy.world 25 points 11 months ago

For me, it makes the clients disposable. I can reinstall the laptop, desktop, phone and be up and running in no time, without doing backups and preparation. Also it is easy to jump between clients.

The server needs to be backed up though

[-] nik282000@lemmy.ca 7 points 11 months ago

Device agnosticism. Life is easier when it doesn't take ONE laptop or phone failure to destroy all your data.

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