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

submitted 9 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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[–] nullpotential@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Lifehacker is still around? Haven't seen that name in years

[–] harsh3466@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

It’s a shell of its former self. I miss Gina Tripani era Lifehacker.

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

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

[–] Facebones@reddthat.com 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I started fiddling with a self hosted rss thing but never got around to putting the app on my new phone. I might give a different one a try sometime it was kinda basic.

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

Definitely try "Read You"! It utilises Material You, has a sick UI and the dev is really nice. I think there are a lot of features, but I've just left almost everything on default.

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

Inoreader ftw!

[–] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The example feed in that article is so boring that it makes me want to kill myself.

[–] spaduf@slrpnk.net 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Does anybody have any recommendations for FOSS RSS readers with actual content surfacing features? So many RSS feeds are full of junk (this is particularly a problem with feeds with wildly disparate posting frequencies) and I've always felt they'd be a lot more useful if people were putting more effort into a modern way to sort through extremely dense feeds.

[–] Artisian@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Not FOSS, but ad free and its been able to find the hidden RSS feeds for things OK. FeedDemon at: http://bradsoft.com/

Probably not what you are after, but maybe someone with a similar question.

[–] ardi60@reddthat.com 3 points 9 months ago

newsboat is also quite stable as a RSS reader. if you like command line

[–] Andre@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

On IOS try feeeed

https://apps.apple.com/de/app/feeeed-rss-reader-and-more/id1600187490

[–] dontwakethetrees@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

If anyone is using an apple device, NetNewsWire is open source and is dead simple. No extra features, no premium tier, can sync with iCloud or self hosted servers, and the reader mode can be applied source-wide.

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[–] captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org 3 points 9 months ago

When Google’s shut down I switched to Feedly. They even imported my Google settings so there was no downtime. I’ve been paying for their Pro version ever since. It’s a really good app!

[–] usyless@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What did you try to mean by, whatever the linguistic details. What are you talking about when you say linguistic details?

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