I’ve recently started using RSS, and I love it.
General news, tech news, release notes of certain apps I use, peertube uploads of channels I like, notifications about limited-time free games, and all of that in one place.
Pretty cool if you ask me
Same, I just started using it recently. Facebook was dropping Canadian news in response to new legislation, and while I wasn’t getting news from there I thought I’d explore. I actually really liked the process and subscribed to some areas I was interested in. I haven’t cleaned it up yet, and I want to try FreshRSS but it’s a start.
It’s actually how I get a lot of the content for Lemmy! I found feeds for a few key medical / Canadian health news things and I go off that.
Using FeedBro on web FireFox, and Feeder on Android
and Feeder on Android
Feeder is the best app ever thanks to the view complete article feature… That alone made me swap Feedly for it in a heartbeat… I only keep the latter for easier control of my sources and quick export and features… And the Android widget!
If I wanted to try RSS out on my PC and mobile device, how would I do this.
First you’d need to get the address of the feeds you want. If a page provides a feed, it should have the little RSS icon somewhere. That should hold the address.
The URLs come in different shapes, some may look like this:
https://noyb.eu/en/rssOthers have the word feed in their name:
https://archlinux.org/feeds/news/And so on and so forth. You’ll see when you get a few together.
Then you add those addresses to your RSS app of choice, and that’s pretty much it. There’s really not much to it, it’s rather simple, and that’s precisely why I like it. You can then have your RSS app only load the actual content, without all the unnecessary jazz that the website it comes from would show.
I use Fluent Reader on Linux, and Feeder on Android.Try Feedly. As best I can tell, it’s the only spiritual successor to Google Reader from years ago (I’m still salty Google killed it). It’s about the only worthwhile non-self-hosted RSS reader online. Being online, it will sync between devices.
If you’re a little more technically inclined, you could also look into self-hosting your own feed reader. That’s beyond my abilities, so I don’t know where to point you for that.
I host my own feed aggregator/reader using Fresh RSS. Easy install with docker, pretty good feature set. I don’t like the mental overhead of going to an app to get things so I use my browser to view the feeds on mobile and desktop.
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Feedly has a mobile app, website, and browser extension. I use it across all devices.
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Which feeds do you use for game sales?
https://steamcommunity.com/groups/GrabFreeGames/rss/
They announce freebies on Steam, GoG, and the weekly ones on Epic
Been using RSS for 15, 20 years? 150-ish feeds? Feedly.com is my reader of choice.
Out of curiosity, how do you manage to follow so many feeds? I’ve been using RSS for probably 20 years now, and feel like I easily get overwhelmed when I get over a dozen feeds or so.
It’s a challenge, indeed. There’s a whole lot of headline scanning, to be honest.
The same as what many have said (blogs, news sites), but my best use case is YouTube! Deleted my account and get my subscriptions through RSS. The best part is it’s actually much more reliable than the YouTube sub box, which is notorious for randomly not sending notifications or not showing new videos.
This…
Youtube. Fuck their bullshit add-ridden platform trying to shove shorts in my face. My RSS reader syncs to my desktop and my phone (and in between). So I have a videos folder that has youtube+ some other platforms all in one place. All my subs are there. When one of them moves to oddysea or some other platform, I can just switch out the links… Done. Stupid easy. No corporate bullshit. I also get to see remnants of the videos that are removed cause of youtube. Makes it so much more transparent on if youtube is screwing around.
I have problems to get notification for live channels with rss, any advice?
I feel like I’m out of the loop here, why would anyone not “still use RSS”, what would the new better replacement be?
Atom :P.
I’m with you, but I think a lot of people either switched to just consuming everything from things like Reddit and other social media platforms / never used RSS in the first place and are thinking about using it now but wondering if it’s “dead” (which thankfully it is not).
Reddit!? I used to be very fond of Reddit, but I can’t see how it could be used as a replacement for RSS.
It’s not, but I think this things serve a similar roll as a stream of content for people, without the need to curate their subscriptions so much.
Jokes on you my client supports both rss and atom.
Ive heard the term and have a vague idea of what it is but thats it. Id say almost everyone outside of the IT-tech nerd sphere dont know what it is. If it was popular once it isnt now
RSS feeds are my main way of staying up to date. I mainly subscribe to blogs and tech news sites. I’m also subscribed to my local subreddit so I don’t miss out on local events even though I don’t use Reddit otherwise.
I was using Feedly for years after Google Reader shut down, but they started doing stuff I don’t like (E.g you can’t subscribe to reddit RSS feeds any longer, you have to sign in to reddit and set up some link between them). So I switched to Miniflux a few months back.
For anyone still wanting to use Feedly with Reddit RSS, I built a tool 10 years ago to make that work like any other RSS feed.
I don’t know what I would do without RSS. I started with Google Reader back in 06 or so. Then went to Feedly, now Inoreader. Between that and podcasts, I have about 200 RSS subscriptions divided into categories: world news, local news, sports, science, entertainment, philosophy, etc. I don’t read every article of course, but I do have highlighted keywords to make sure I don’t miss important stuff when scanning.
Without RSS I’d stop following the vast majority of online content. I’m not checking all these different websites individually, where their follow options have substantially less functionality.
I currently have 121 feeds. Podcasts, youtube channels, TV show releases, some blogs, a surprising number of reddit searches, etc. I used to have substantially more feeds but I trimmed it heavily a couple of years ago - mostly I stopped follow the news so closely for my sanity.
It might sound kind of overwhelming but I create pretty strict filters so I get maybe a dozen updates on a busy day.
Yup. It’s incredibly convenient, I have no idea why people stopped using it. I follow a bunch of youtube channels, webcomics, podcasts, blogs, and apps in development. If there’s some way other than RSS to have all those updates show up on a single page, I don’t know it.
I think people used social media (Reddit, Twitter even Instagram) as a replacement. As those started going to shit, people probably migrated back to rss
Doesn’t anyone listen to podcasts anymore? Most of my RSS feeds are podcasts. I also self-host the audiobooks in my LAN as podcast feeds. Makes listening through a large book series when my podcast app can manage the files, saves space because I don’t need to keep more files on my phone than I can listen to in a day or two. Not a fan of audible. A fan of libraries, but the various apps they use to lend digital files like ebooks and audiobooks SUUUCK.
If you are into selfhosting you could checkout audiobookshelf which allows you to stream podcasts and audiobooks from your own server and manage their metadata
I don’t want to stream from my server though since I almost never listen to audiobooks while connected to WiFi. Podcast apps are already setup to manage syncing files for offline listening, most are well suited to work with Bluetooth and Android Auto. Podcast apps tend to be more mature and less troublesome than something new like audiobookshelf. Plus, if I get fed up with one podcast app I can just switch to another because RSS is standard. I don’t want another suite of software managing a metadata database. Getting the metadata correct in the files and utilizing an open standard is much more future proof.
Never figured out how to start listening to podcasts, tbh.
Usually, you start it with the play button /s
Fair enough, lol.
Audible is fine with Libation to strip the DRM. Then I use “Smart Audiobook Player” on android which crashes far less and is quicker to load than the official Audible app.
Not since Google Reader died
That is a long grief, look up for Feedly and Feeder.
xkcd
RSS is amazing. Recently started using it with the Nextcloud News app. Turns out I’ve really been missing out on the possibilities.
I use it for getting comic strips, news and events. Funny thing I use it alongside Nitter to also get updates on local accounts, such as government, nearby events, etc.
There are so many good Emergency Medicine blogs out there, I use Feedly to neatly aggregate them on my phone and read when I get downtime at work.
Can you link your top 3? Never read those before but this sounds very interesting.
Oh gosh, top 3?
ALiEM has brilliant and varied content, their tricks of the trade section has cool pearls
Dr. Smith’s ECG blog because I love me a cool ECG, also great to have tricky ECGs in your face regularly, makes me feel like I am less likely to miss one in the wild.
EMDocs for just great catchup content.
Extra super special mention goes out to:
Emergency Mind Podcast - not a blog, but really positive content, I always love to listen to the new ep on my commute.
Appreciate the links and their descriptions. Thanks for sharing!
RSS is the way.
I just wish major newspapers would keep their feeds up to date. Toronto Star, for instance, does not. And yet it posts to vulture social media while complaining about how they are being picked clean… Just silly.
I use RSS for newspapers mostly. Good way to get a bead on what’s being reported chronologically as opposed to being explicitly sorted after the fact by outrage quotient.
