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I'd like to take my RSS feeds from an aggregator of news to a curated selection of interesting things. Interesting newsletters and blogs are where I think RSS shines, but I struggle to find this content.

What do you do to find these kinds of RSS feeds?

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[-] iNeedScissors67@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'd go a step further and see if anyone here has recommendations for the best RSS readers. I've never used one, and I'm wary to take any of the ones offered in the Android play store that are going to shove ads in my face. I'd love a quick guide to set them up properly, too. I'm a luddite when it comes to this apparently because the last one I installed, I couldn't get it to grab any of the links.

EDIT: I installed Feedly and it was easy to set up. I don't need it to do anything but grab articles I'm interested in and it seems to do that just fine. I'd just like to be able to unfollow all news/politics subs on the fediverse and stick to articles only. Thanks for the input to everyone who replied.

[-] privsecfoss@feddit.dk 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I used Read You from f-droid app-store and was happy with it. No commercials and FOSS. Switched to Nextcloud News for centralized RSS feeds from my Nextcloud.

[-] amanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

+1 on Read You. For desktop, I can also recommend newsboat on Linux and NetNewsWire on MacOS.

[-] privsecfoss@feddit.dk 2 points 1 year ago
[-] amanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For anyone considering Elfeed (Emacs RSS Reader), coming from an Emacs user, please just use newsboat. It is so much better, the fact newsboat has macro support really sealed the deal for me. You can use macros to open feeds in any program you want, for instance, a macro to open feed in mpv:

bind-key SPACE macro-prefix

unbind-key ,

macro o set browser "mpv %u &>/dev/null &" ; open-in-browser-and-mark-read ; set browser "<your-browser-command> %u &"

[-] afb@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Agree entirely. I use newsboat (inside vterm (inside emacs)).

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