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Why Everyone Should Still Use an RSS Reader in 2024 (lifehacker.com)

submitted 8 months ago by Ninjazzon@infosec.pub to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] nutsack@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

people don't do RSS anymore because websites don't do posts. everything is on some shitty proprietary social media shithole

[–] cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world -1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I have a really intense desire to nibble an attractive mans toes.

Even stranger I have a need to tell someone about it.

Congratulations to you, I guess?

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm confused if you're mocking op or this is actually some challenge you're doing

[–] cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world -1 points 8 months ago

I live a life of whimsical nonsense and was probably horny for a moment so just blurted out what was on my mind. I find it amusing the number of downvotes I got.

[–] nutsack@lemmy.world -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I don't know why you're being downloaded I think this is an important post

[–] cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world -1 points 8 months ago

Thank you! At least someone understands.

[–] jagoan@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Reddit and Twitter were my RSS reader replacement. But then they shot themselves in the foot. Mastodon is not there yet. Lemmy is almost there, but still missing the non techy communities.

[–] Turun@feddit.de 0 points 8 months ago

I'm reading some /r/hfy stories. Since I no longer get notifications for reddit pm, I have replaced it with the RSS Feed for "posts by user xxx". RSS also works like a subscription on royal roads, the alternative that a lot of writers switched to.

Works perfectly well, I'm very happy with it.

[–] bushparty@sh.itjust.works 0 points 8 months ago

RSS has always been great! Thankfully I never relied on Google Reader and have been using Newsify for 5+ years. Great app with a great newspaper view as well as an identical web version. Keept me off of Google and don't have to rely on Feedly either.

Newsify also supports Feedly accounts though I've never needed to consider migrating. I think I've had a couple full text issues with certain items but it's been amazing great and I've really enjoyed their product and price point for subscription ($50CAD/yr, I believe)

[–] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 0 points 8 months ago

I use Feeder on Android, it's open source.