I've gotten to a point in my privacy journey where it's less about moving towards private options, and more about relaxing and having some fun with what I can do.

I put off messing around with RSS for a while. I simply didn't have a significant need for it. However, after finding no good options to monitor various Lemmy communities without logging in, I decided to try out an RSS reader.

I settled on Feeder as my RSS reader, despite a few missing features I would like. I added my first Lemmy community as a feed, to try it out. I was immediately surprised how well it worked.

I also added other feeds, such as Tails News, and I was happy with that. I could monitor all the communities I needed to.

Then, I noticed one day, there was an RSS button for my Lemmy inbox. This is where I was really pleased: I can view my notifications without the need to log in, all in the same place.

Lemmy and RSS are both incredible, and I truly believe RSS is the hidden backbone of the internet. I love it, and maybe you should give it a try too!

(Ahem P.S. if anyone has an RSS reader as good as Feeder for Android that fixes this issue, please let me know)

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[–] Adda@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

My only gripe with RSS is the usual dependency on a synchronization server (whether it is a 3rd party server or self-hosted). I have been searching for way too long for a local-first RSS application for both Linux and Android which would store the RSS feeds (as in, the downloaded posts) in a local folder that could be then synchronized between Linux and Android applications using Syncthing or similar. Sadly, still no results. Anyone know about something?

[–] DrDystopia@lemy.lol 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There's always decsync but despite the author claiming it isn't dead, I say it's dead. 😥

[–] Adda@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Exactly. Otherwise, DecSync would be perfect (and I even used DecSync in the past).

[–] chebra@mstdn.io 1 points 1 week ago

@Adda @DrDystopia For Rss I've been using "SpaRSS DecSync" with Syncthing exactly for local rss feeds synced across my devices. It works, but yeah it would be nice if the ecosystem around DecSync were more live, more apps implementing it, to have more choice.

[–] checksout@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Newsboat on pc and newsboat in termux 😅

[–] Adda@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Aha, I haven't thought about using the same Linux application. This approach might be worth investigating. Thank you for the idea.

[–] macattack@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's audio-specific but I use Audiobookshelf's RSS feed

I have a local folder where I put downloaded youtube audio and the RSS feed updates automatically when new files are placed there. Then, I access it through Lissen or the official audiobookshelf app.

[–] Adda@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

It is definitely worth looking at. I am working with mostly blog posts RSS feeds, but this might come useful one of these days, too. Thank you for the suggestion.