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It's always good to be in control of your own content sources.

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[–] IncidentalIncidence@feddit.de 16 points 1 year ago (5 children)

The problem isn't that I don't know about RSS, it's more that I don't really have any content sources that use it

[–] mim@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

How come?

I get the top hacker news from an RSS feed (https://hnrss.github.io/), individual blogs, YouTube channels, twitter accounts (getting the RSS feeds from nitter), etc

Most websites will have RSS hidden underneath.

[–] IncidentalIncidence@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the biggest thing that I would use it for would be individual blogs, I just only have 3 or 4 of those that I follow.

For the others, it doesn't help me that much to centralize them. Like with the hacker news rss feed, I can't comment or interact from the rss reader, so I might as well use the website. With twitter, all of my twitter follows are already centralized on twitter; same with youtube.

[–] vividspecter@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

You could use it as a source for contributing links rather than interacting with existing threads. Which is more important in the early days, particularly for niche communities.

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