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Whatever the linguistic details, one of the main roles of RSS is to supply directly to you a steady stream of updates from a website. Every new article published on that site is served up in a list that can be interpreted by an RSS reader.

Unfortunately, RSS is no longer how most of us consume "content." (Google famously killed its beloved Google Reader more than a decade ago.) It's now the norm to check social media or the front pages of many different sites to see what's new. But I think RSS still has a place in your life: Especially for those who don't want to miss anything or have algorithms choosing what they read, it remains one of the best ways to navigate the internet. Here's a primer on what RSS can (still!) do for you, and how to get started with it, even in this late era of online existence.

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[–] DontMakeMoreBabies@kbin.social 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

So I just downloaded feeder (edit okay I made a lite app with Hermit) but does anyone had a good way to setup a default set of feeds?

Just something to get started. I'll play around with it later but maybe someone can save me some time...

[–] knightly@pawb.social 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You can import a bunch of rss feeds at once if they are saved as a .opml file, and you can find a big ol' list of 'em at https://github.com/plenaryapp/awesome-rss-feeds

[–] DontMakeMoreBabies@kbin.social 4 points 9 months ago

Exactly the sort of thing I was looking for! Thank you.

[–] SuspiciousUser@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I love TinyTinyRSS (self hosted) and lire for iOS which syncs with it. Very powerful setup. I have issues with overusing social media sites so I have sites like Lemmy do the "Top Week" and so on for areas I'm interested in.

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[–] Helkriz@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I'm using Feeder app and it's the best. Others are resource heavy and light apps won't load the whole story instead redirects. Which is a problem. Feeder on the other hand, free open source privacy respecting light app which shows the whole story in the app itself. Very very useful and not a disturbing one.

[–] _number8_@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

i remember in high school (2010s) i tried using RSS but increasingly the feed wouldn't even have the article, just the title and the link so you'd have to visit their website. especially obnoxious because my obnoxious school district filtered approx 90% of the internet (for shocking reasons like 'forums' or 'TV/entertainment' or 'sports' or 'media')

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[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Another Feedly user, here. Definitely the way to go after the death of Google Reader.

My only concern with it is that I'd prefer any advertisement revenue to go to the original website with the content I want. Fortunately, if the website's ads aren't intrusive, I just disable ad block on that site and click through to it, giving them the views they need to keep going.

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[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 7 points 9 months ago (10 children)

RSS is great. Podcasts and webcomics are easier to follow with RSS.

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[–] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 5 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Does anyone have a list of sites with good RSS feeds? News sites preferably - I’m having a hard time finding some of them.

[–] Evkob@lemmy.ca 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Somebody else in this thread linked a Github repo listing "Awesome RSS Feeds", they have categories by country and by topic.

Otherwise, this is the method I use to find RSS feeds from websites that don't have a link/button to their feed (copy/pasted from my other comment in this thread):

You can often find RSS feeds by checking the page’s source (on Firefox: right-click and “View Page Source”) and using Ctrl+F to search, there’s usually a URL somewhere. Keywords to search for: “feed”, “RSS”, “xml”, “atom”. For example, if I go to this community’s page on lemmy.world, I can Ctrl+F “feed” on the page source to find https://lemmy.world/feeds/c/technology.xml

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[–] ominouslemon@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago

I don't know what client you're using, but Inoreader usually finds the RSS feed even if the webpage does not link to it

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[–] OhmsLawn@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago (4 children)

As someone who has only dipped his toe into this tech, and into podcasts, for that matter, what's the best android app to use for this?

I don't really want to use Spotify, etc. Is there a preferred independent and/or FOSS that people like?

[–] DemSpud@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 9 months ago

I use Feeder for RSS feeds

[–] thegreekgeek@midwest.social 6 points 9 months ago

I have an instance of freshrss feeding into feedme and it's awesome. I went with feedme because it's got a built in mobilizer that you can customize if the feed doesn't have the whole article content.

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[–] TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Used Google Reader and now use Feedly. I go ahead and pay for Feedly since I like it enough to do so.

I can't imagine not using RSS to consume stuff. It just makes things so much easier.

[–] User79185@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 9 months ago

RSS is my everyday goto, I'm using QuiteRSS with filters for specific words, really neat one.

[–] DannyMac@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)
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[–] FlavorPacket@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

I highly recommend NewsBlur if you don’t want to host your own.

[–] sapphiria@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

When I switched from Reddit to Lemmy, I started using Feeder for news to fill that gap. I think my podcast app on Linux also uses RSS.

I also used Feeder with Nitter for a while to keep up with friends posting on Twitter (I never really got into Twitter myself). Though that stopped working at some point.

So yeah, RSS definitely still has uses today.

[–] ominouslemon@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

Podcasting uses RSS in general, yes!

[–] fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Inoreader ftw!

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