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?
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.