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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[–] m4m4m4m4@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I was heartbroken when Google killed their Reader service. To this day I can't fully understand why they did it - many people used and loved it.

Moved to Feedly but things were never the same. I'd like another app or service that lets me read my subscribed feeds and sync their read/unread status (and save them for reading them later in a separate collection, as you can with Feedly) between android and pc - but being visually well designed as Feedly, without the caps it puts to you like that ridiculous cap on searching into your feeds, being completely free and that is no self hosted (don't have a pc turned on 24/7 nor can afford it)... so yeah maybe this is asking for too much.

However, I absolutely agree RSS is absolutely awesome and wish more people get into it

[–] datendefekt 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

To this day I can't fully understand why they did it.

One word: ads.

With RSS, you have content from various sources in one place, stripped of the ads, without any cookielicious tracking. How are you supposed to monitize that?

[–] roflo1@feddit.nl 5 points 2 weeks ago

The Old Reader supports 100 feeds on the free tier. And they have a nice list of apps that support syncing to your account:

https://www.theoldreader.com/en/apps/

Might work for you if you don’t syndicate many feeds.

[–] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 weeks ago

I recently started self hosting this one https://github.com/Athou/commafeed

I don't know if it's the best or anything, but it works fine for me.