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This is quite useful to self-host: https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge
Ok, let's say you selfhost RSS Bridge at myselfhost.net:1234. Let's say you want to follow a youtube channel, @fancyyoutuber, via RSS. Plug the channel into rss-bridge, and it outputs an RSS feed at myselfhost.net:1234/feed/youtube/fancyyoutuber/atom.xml (I totally made that link up). You plug that into your RSS reader of choice as the feed source, and, boom, the youtube channel is in your reader.
Ok. This makes it trivial to do so since youtube RSS feeds are eithet nonexistent or unreliable.
Congrats! My native youtube RSS feeds are mostly 404 or access forbidden, depending on the day, as are many others'.
Thats it. First sentence on link. Generates an rss feed from a youtube channel or from a soundcloud user, etc
You don't have to self host it if you scroll down there is a list of public instances: https://rss-bridge.github.io/rss-bridge/General/Public_Hosts.html
Reason to self host, some websites don't like rss bridge because it's a kind of adblock from their point of view, and they actively block the ip addresses of these instances. If you selfhost it, you can use these sites, because a single user instance won't generate as much traffic than 1000 users, so they won't notice your instance
How else are you going to use it? Ok they have an hosted instance, but that's not great for privacy and will break as soon as it gets somewhat popular as the sites usually have scraping protections.