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?
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.
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.
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 I dreamingly 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.
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
Never stopped. Now I also host a service that can convert some sites to an RSS feed when they don’t have one.
ooo la-la?
Rss-bridge
What service is that?
Rss-bridge
Probably rss-bridge, I gave up in it after a few months. Constant failures.
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.
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.
i use it to read news - love rss.
What RSS readers do people like? I used to love Google Reader!
newsflash and feeder.
Miniflux. Super easy to self host.
I got fed up with Feedly and moved onto Inoreader. I’ve been happy since.
I’m using Feeder on android at the moment. No issues so far
And if you want a desktop (linux) client, Akregator works pretty well with similar functionality to Feeder.
Cappy Reader is nice
FreshRSS and CapyReader (synced to FreshRSS).
CapyReader (synced to FreshRSS)
Oooh, what does that look like in practice?
FreshRSS runs on my server and I manage all my feeds there. I can read there in the browser as well. Capy connects to it and syncs everything down, and it also syncs read status back up. On the server I also have rsshub and rssbridge, which let you make feeds out of a huge bunch of sites that don’t natively have RSS.
Neat! Thanks for the explanation. :)
Currently using Fluent Reader for desktop. I’ll never not use RSS for news.
I am using Liferea
I’ve been paying for the cheapest tier of The Old Reader for years. I think its $25 per year. It’s a lot like Google Reader. The basic web interface works fine for me in mobile browsers, like in Firefox on my phone. Which keeps things really simple.
i started isng it again. its a great way to keep up with news rather than what the algorithm tells you you should see. i highly suggest to follow your local councils news feed too
I use RSS for webcomics, eager to hear some other uses
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.
Ya never stopped using it. Trimmed some feeds as publications come and go. Miss the golden days but holy cow it’s still good.
Yup! Never stopped. I happily moved all my feeds from newsblur to a self-hosted aggregator a few months ago (using Tiny Tiny RSS atm after a couple months on Tuvix). I follow tech news, comics, general news, FOSS project releases (also yaaarh releases).
I used to use it as a mailing thread I would write a blog in short sentences and the system of updated notifications was a lot more easier and I was able to format a page with some info and text as it wasn’t secure yet but when I had made its availability to reach people for certain amount of time it became a way to make friends with our social media and would receive emails building a contact list. I had liked apples original rss feed when they had it attached to email and opened a server on a MacBook but it was experimental. Now you have to pay for stuff like that since this site had came out I had really liked how it’s categorized and organized in text but could use a better notification system like availability to reach servers that ping online which I think they used to have a p2p server like that for Apple as well
