RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication, and it is a simple, standardized content distribution method that can help you stay up-to-date with your favorite newscasts, blogs, websites, and social media channels. Instead of visiting sites to find new posts or subscribing to sites to receive notification of new posts, find the RSS feed on a website and read new posts in an RSS reader.
Do you use RSS to curate your own information feed? Looking to expand my sources to include different perspectives and new interesting topics and would love any suggestions.
Absolutely. I use Miniflux and clients on various devices to get the sync feature. I mostly have tech and game news there, though.
Yeah, just recently started self hosting FreshRSS instance. Before that i used Newsboat, first entry on its database is from 2020/09 so been a while in use. But basically i use it for my news reading, linux distro news and used to collect twitter feeds there but now…
Give it a go, easy way to gather all news feeds/blogs/basically anything you want to read in one place!
Yup! I use Feeder as my RSS aggregator of choice
I subscribe to technology news sites and lgbtq+ news sites using it, since it’s waaay better than going into each site and finding an article that interests me, opposed to opening feeder and finding my links categorized by site
I used it in thr past with Google Reader, and I’m using it again now as a replacement for more niche gaming/tech news that I used to get from various smaller subreddits.
I am using Lire as client in iOS and Mac: http://lireapp.com
I stopped using RSS around when I started using Reddit, so around 2008-2009!
I’m surprised to see that it’s still so popular, or has it gained traction again recently?
I didn’t hear much about RSS in between 2010-2022 TBH.It never really died, but it got a boost lately with people getting more critical about the sources they get the news from instead of relying on Google or Apple algorithms. Fediverse supporting RSS also didn’t hurt.
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The whole podcast ecosystem is based on RSS. It’s more popular than ever. People just don’t realize that they’re using RSS.
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Yeah. I run my own FreshRSS server and use FeedMe to access it. It’s mostly just a bunch of UK newspapers and tech news sites because I realised I was getting all my news from Twitter and I wanted to cut back my use of Twitter. It’s fine. The great thing about getting my news from social media was that I’d follow a load of people with similar interests to me so I’d mostly just see articles that interested me regardless of the source. Now it takes more scrolling to get past the articles I don’t care about to find the ones I want to read. It means I get a broader overview of news that isn’t effectively curated for me, either by other people or by algorithm, but it’s not as engaging. It is the right choice though if you’re looking to see more outside of what you’re usually shown, as you say.
I’ve been running tiny tiny tss (ttrs) server since google reader died. It’s been great & there’s an android app.
There is also an iOS app. It is quite simple but it works well.
Yep! There’s a community here for recommendations related to RSS too! [email protected]
I’ve recently realized that I may also want a different desktop app (so not necessarily involving a server) for reading RSS feeds than what I’ve been using. Was trying to use Thunderbird for this for the convenience of email/calendar/RSS, but I have this feeling that it may not be able to adequately handle some of the variations I’ve seen cropping up with some sites’ RSS (which may be those sites mucking it up more than anything to do with Thunderbird tbh but not sure).
Yes I do. Just briefly described them today @ https://sh.itjust.works/comment/626296
Reeder is great for this!
Yeah, been selfhosting freshrss for years. I use it as much as possible. Even for GitHub releases and subreddits. I see that lemmy has an RSS link too.
I’ve tried so many RSS platforms but it doesn’t work for me (I blame my ADHD). As sad as it is, I always got my country & world news from Reddit in the past.
Great thing about rss is that you can rss reddit subs too, and even use reddit front ends to set up the rss.
I do, mostly for just subreddits so I don’t have to keep visiting reddit.
Yeah, of course. How else will I know when my various serialized content updates? Like, are people out there just checking a list of blogs and comics by hand every few days? I used to do that before RSS, and it suuuuuucked.
