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RSS feeds are everywhere. They are all around us. Even right now, in this very room.
Just an experiment to see if I can get y'all to click through the feed and upvote 😉
Favorite RSS apps? I use Feeder on my phone
Capy Reader or ReadYou on Android, FreshRSS website in the browser on desktop.
I moved to Capy Reader recently and have been likeing it quite a bit.
Reeder
Thunderbird on desktop, RSSHub to generate feeds for sites that don't support it
I use the tracker webdriver Miniflux using the paid hosting which is 15$ a year. On my phone I use the tracker News from the library fdroid to sync to the webdriver.
Nontech person here, can someone eli5 rss feeds and how I would set up or use?
eli5 rss feeds
it's like podcasts, but for websites. you add websites that you want to follow and get notified when a new post or article appears.
Ouch, the millennials felt that
well that just sounds like a far better way to experience the internet
what's the catch?
the catch is that lots of the stuff on the internet is now centralised on big platforms that try as hard as they can to steer you into their apps, so that you consume the content the way they want you to rather than the way you personally find convenient. what used to be blogs and small hobby websites has become Facebook fan pages or Instagram accounts, and while both Facebook and Instagram used to offer RSS feeds for public accounts at some point, it hasn't been the case anymore for a decade or so. there are workarounds that let you get RSS for some pages that don't offer it, but not for all of them and they vary in difficulty from "put the name of the account you want to follow and generate a special feed address with one click" through "pay a small monthy subscription for a company to generate a feed for you", to "self-host some software that manages the feed", and all of those can break at some point. still, for me personally there's enough stuff that offers the feeds that are ready easy enough to access to make it worth my time.
You can also organise them into groups. You can view all the new content on a particular blog in order, or you can look at all your webcomic strips like opening up the newspaper to the funny page.
No catch, its an extremely simple, old and reliable system. The apps also look great, and have options for different lists, etc.
The only "catch" is that many sites no longer offer a feed, in the past almost all did. Blame Google.
I tried RSS a couple times but I don't get it. There are so many different channels from one of my favorite news site alone. If I fetch them all, my RSS inbox is bursting from that one site. How do I sort through all of it? I can't manage hundreds of new articles per day.
you don't read every article when visiting the website either, do you? so you're already doing the sorting.
no one's forcing you to read all of them, either set a short expiry time for the feed so the unread ones get deleted after a day or week or whatever, or mark them as read so that they disappear and move on. some readers allow you to set filters to e.g. ignore articles with certain keywords in the headlines, if you're feeling a bit extra.
Yeah you want Livemarks on Firefox (add-on) so an RSS feed symbol will pop up when it detects a site has at least one, and any hyperlinks to RSS feeds will open in browser properly instead of showing you some raw text. You can also drop the site's URL itself into an RSS feed such as FluentReader or RSSGuard. I'm gonna have to push Flare Android app here because it threads everything together across RSS and social media, making it a no brained. Also the share button works for adding RSS very much a deal breaker with these apps. Feeder is also good I use it for all of the github and codeberg shit and nerd blogs etc. Shame it doesn't support multiple OPML files well. RSSGuard has the best organization, nexted folders that show their child folders' contents (looking at you Thunderbird 😐👎). Lets you set different rates for each website to update. Which in the age of rate limits should probably be the first thing people do but so far I haven't had problems with that. Maybe when we get into thousands of YouTube music pages.
Stuff like RSSHub is for ppl who want their own cacheing and redistribution and to preprocess the feeds with searches and stuff. I mentioned that here but don't worry abt that, it's for making stuff work that doesn't want to show an RSS feed or it was set up in like 2006 and they think it's not dogshit because technically it gets lots of hits. This is just to be very extensive but I:m making it sound too hard so I'll stop here.
Anyone wanna share fav RSS syndicated blogs or content? I have a couple things I like (Erin kissanne's blogs, and a little gaming blog), but mostly my feed is just a couple of political outlets I trust or respect
Id love to hear if there are any neat things worth checking out to add to my RSS reader!
- Youtube channels that I'm interested in, so that I don't have to use my Youtube account or the app, and just open the links via Invidious (Invidious offers their own RSS feeds, as well, but since the instances can be a bit finicky from time to time, I feel like that's the safer approach)
- World News and Europe feeds from BBC, Deutsche Welle and Reuters
- https://restofworld.org/
- 404 Media and The Verge
- GamingOnLinux, Steam Deck HQ and Boiling Steam for gaming things
- updates on some software that I use - CalyxOS and LineageOS blogs, KOReader's Github releases since my Kindle stays offline 99% of the time, modified port of Google Camera that I use on my phone
- a few TikTok people whose videos I then open through https://offtiktok.com
- release updates from the artists I'm interested in (currently Spotify-based, but I'm in the process of moving those to Music Butler)
- https://reasonstobecheerful.world because I need to know how reintroducing beavers to London has improved everything
- several webcomics, Tumblr blogs, and one newsletter from the Nazi-hugging newsletter place
- http://miniature-calendar.com/
several of those are possible thanks to RSS Bridge which adds RSS feeds for websites that don't offer it by default or offers improved versions.
Do you run 404 Media through RSS bridge as well?
nope, I use the official https://www.404media.co/rss/ link. sometimes it pulls the entire article even though I'm on a free tier, and sometimes it doesn't and I just open it in the browser instead.
Cory Doctorow's Pluralistic blog:
The American Prospect:
https://prospect.org/feed/?partner-feed=main-feed
The Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss
You can get RSS feeds of any of the Guardian sections (US, World, Science, etc) just by adding "/rss" to the http address.
Lemmy communities have RSS feeds
If RSS feeds are being killed, should I really spend the effort to invest my time into setting them all up? Do major news sources like NYT, etc. still plan to have them up and running indefinitely, or are they about to take them down?
If they are being used, they’re less likely to be killed. It’s probably worth using them to keep their numbers up.
Well then you move to scraping with tools like RSSHub lol they're not stopping me with paywalls either you can automatically feed stuff into archive.today and then detect the same URL when it gets posted on archive with their RSS feed itself. You will learn the ways
Wait, archive.today has RSS feeds? That would be ideal…how are you doing it?
Yeah the whole site they have an RSS feed of whatever gets saved. So you apply regex to that and you can filter for relevant geopolitical news articles pretty easily. If you guys HYPOTHETICALLY wanted to read something other than The Guardian on here lol
After flitting around to different ESS readers ive settled on NewsBlur. I really really like it - the free version is fully functional, but the paid has awesome quality of life features.
Available in browser and from F-Droid
Reeder
Half of my feed is Youtube channels. I tried adding Invidious feed Url but it doesn't seem to support it. Has anyone had success getting it work?
I wouldn't recommend RSS feeds unless it's your own instance. Like Nitter, the site owners are going to be blocking RSS to conserve resources. Then when the instance goes down you need to use regex on the OPML file to change the instance lol
To use the YouTube RSS feeds, LinkSheet (Android, to catch links and send them to PipePipe or Metrolist etc) or Libredirect (Firefox Android/PC)
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