Protip: Youtube channels have RSS feeds, they're just buried in the source of the page. Ctrl-U and then Ctrl-F title="RSS"
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You can also just drop the youtube channel link (ex. https://www.youtube.com/@LinusTechTips ) as well into most readers and it'll sort it out for you, so you don't even have to go digging.
I guess to get actual value from these videos you will still need to visit youtube.com though, in the end giving them valuable data to analyze.
Yeah but the goal here is to escape the algorithm deciding what you consume
You can play YouTube videos in VLC player
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Maybe try one of the downloaders
I can recommend yt-dlp
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I did this too recently. Highly recommend.
To OP and the few other comments sarcastically dunking on the blogger for just discovering RSS: why? It's not exactly drowning in advocates today, and there's basically a whole generation that wasn't around when Google killed off Reader. What if we treated advocacy like this like the good thing it is?
Why is it people flock to server based rss? Wtf? There are native clients galore for all platforms ever created.
Having your stuff accessible and synced, including read/unread status, across devices is a real benefit.
You make my heart hurt, you're so right. It's getting harder and harder to find RSS or Atom links on sites. The more people rediscover these technologies, the more chance there is that site developers will continue to provide them.
It would be fantastic if more people would rediscover Usenet, and IRC, and ditch the shitty knock-offs like Discord. There's a pretty big contingent advocating for Jabber, which I'm ambivalent about, having been there when it started and when it (effectively) died and being very conscious of its flaws and limitations... but, still, these are all open standards and old-school internet - sometimes pre-web! - and they're often still better than the commoditized successors.
Embrace and encourage the new infusion of youth! Gate keeping is a very post-eternal-September behavior.
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I never stopped using it. It's a shame some sites don't have an rss feed anymore though...
Some RSS readers have the ability to generate an RSS feed from a site if they don't support it. Some sites don't show they have an RSS feed but they actually do.
Some smaller news sites share RSS feeds or newsletters if you support them on patreon.
I recently rediscovered RSS with Read You on F-Droid (I enjoy it's UI and bionic reading). I also found something on Github called Follow that I use on my desktop running CachyOS.
People should be rediscovering RSS. It's news that you tailor to yourself and doesn't come bundled with the "social" part of social media.
The problem I run into is most news sites optimize for 2 things
- Getting on google
- Getting linked on Twitter or Reddit
So most sites have a fuck ton of noise and carpet bomb ads.
I'd love to go back to the RSS model but it's hard finding sites worth reading again.
I really agree - I've stepped away from reading so much of what's online because it's all clickbaity junk with no substance. I'm not sure where to look for actual content to put in my reader. But I'm making forays.
This is why I legit built my own space news app , because my autistic brain can't handle all the crap they've added to pages. I just need the text, and images. I don't need links to other articles in the body of the article! I'm currently reading this article!! and stop citing your own articles as sources!
On Firefox on Android there is a reader mode that gives you just the text and images. It's the little icon next to the url. Sometimes you can bypass a paywall if you press it really quick before the page finishes loading.
Lemme clarify a bit. I love reader mode too and agree it cuts out a lot of cruft.
My point was that authors and articles spend less time trying to write an engaging article and more time trying to shove SEO keywords and questions into articles. It ruins the article and makes it something not worth reading.
Reader mode is great but if the substance isn't there then it's all for naught.
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Find one or two sites you regularly like from your usual sources. Then when THOSE sources link to another source, FOLLOW that link. If that site has good content, add it to your list.
It doesn't take long to build a solid RSS feed, just need to spend a little time curating it. The key is to pay attention to who is providing the info.
Don't like the direction a site is going, remove it from your feed.
If you see that one source is commonly the original source for information, or reporting make sure you do what you can to support it. Do they have a patreon? Can you share it out to your other sources?
Also, make sure you're not falling into a bubble, follow national and international news sources.
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I use RSS but as far as I'm concerned, Lemmy is better, because it is categorized and ranked.
lemmy also supports rss! your inbox can generate a rss feed. Also communities have feeds that update whenever someone posts on them. For example for c/technology sorted after active: https://lemmy.world/feeds/c/technology.xml?sort=Active
I use RSS for sites where I want to read every update. That typically means serial comics; dev-blogs of indie games; other infrequent blogs; and some infrequent youTube channels (I don't visit youTube other than via my RSS feeds);
Whereas I use Lemmy and other sites for skimming and browsing, and discovering new things.
Cool tip.
If you want news for a specific game and they release news on steam.. all steam pages have an RSS feed.
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I've recently rediscovered RSS and I'm in love with it. I just wish Meta wasn't a piece of fuck and let you add Facebook pages and Instagram accounts. there are some workarounds for the latter, but they're really finicky.
member when all the big cool web 2.0 companies had public facing APIs?
That was just for the growth and acquisition phase, using the network effect to capture consumers and businesses, get them addicted and dependent on the product, and then build a wall around them to lock them into your platform.
It's a classic bait and switch, and if we didn't live in corporate dictatorships masquerading as "democracy" it'd be illegal.
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never stopped using rss/atom with ttrss 💪
How do you all discover new RSS feeds to subscribe to?
Most of the feeds I subscribe to came to me in one of two ways:
- I enjoyed reading an article posted somewhere else (Lemmy, etc.) so I sought out the feed of that publisher.
- Sometimes news outlets enter into agreements to republish each others articles. When they do this, the re-publisher will usually include a little blurb at the end giving credit to the original publisher. If a feed I'm already subscribed to has an article re-published from elsewhere then I click through and check out the original source to see if I want to follow them as well.
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