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I use RSS to watch YouTube videos. I collect the ULRs of the videos I want to watch in a text file using my feed reader (Newsboat). In the evening a script transfers the file to my TV computer and fetches the videos with yt-dlp.

To play the videos I use another script, which plays and then trashes the video files in a loop.

Pros: no ads, no buffering videos during playback, plays videos without interaction (like TV), can collect video URLs over day, don't have to bother with YouTube's user interface, cookies etc.

I self-host FreshRSS and use it for:

• Blogs
• News-Sites
• Piped (YouTube) channels
• GitHub releases

I use this lightweight reader by the same dev who makes Bookstack. Just for news though. I use Audiobookshelf for podcasts.

I subscribe to:

• Blogs I find interesting
• Blogs of personal friends
• Projects' blogs and announcements
• Changes to codebase I need to closely monitor (e.g. things I host)
• Videos, mostly on YouTube, but also my PeerTube feed
• Web comics

I use Feedly after Google reader died. Pretty much only use it for webcomics.

Yes. I use it on my phone. I use AntennaPod for pod casts, and Flym for textual news feeds. Antenna pod in particular is really nice. I finding having this sort of content on a mobile device best.

Blogs, news sites, YouTube channels of a few favorite music artists, web comics, etc. FreshRss is my favorite.

I use RSS through Readwise Reader though I've used Newsblur in the past. I really wish Newsblur was redesigned to get a more modern interface..

My use is not foss because I didn't find something that fits my needs better than Inoreader. There is the android app which works fine and also a very nice web interface that I can use at work because without thumbnails it looks like a 'boring' list of stuff.

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@privsecfoss Newsboat and feedly

I have never used RSS until literally this week lol. I added the AWS health RSS. I have no idea how it works. Like, I get the idea but not how to practically use it.

Blogs, local news sources, weather sources. Some gov.uk reports. Although I've tried several clients I keep falling back to Thunderbird and Aggregator (simple Android client).

after Google shut down Reader, I took my OPML (list of subscriptions), and switched to a FOSS local RSS reader; import my OPML and carry on. I've switched software occasionally; right now I'm happy with Feeder (from f-droid).

Getting my news is something I care about too much to entrust to someone's server; I'm happy with it purely local.

I've been using RSS since before Google Reader was a thing. It's a fantastic way to monitor new papers in journals as almost all journals have been providing a feed since forever. I could go with a self-hosted option but I just ended up using Inoreader although I will probably migrate again. They used to have some entry level plans (they call it supporter plan) at some €20/yr but it looks like they are no longer available for new users.

Would you mind sharing some of your favorite blogs and webcomics?

@privsecfoss mostly to read low cadence personal blogs or programmer / tech blogs.

Selfhost Yarr https://github.com/nkanaev/yarr

I would prefer a river of news interface to a traditional RSS reader but haven't found one I like yet.

Nothing unusual with my feed - news, tech, science, environment. What I may do differently is I set up a filter on Mastodon so any of my feeds are only seen in rss. I really don't need to see a Wired article 6 times.

For qbittorrent for sites I know I will want their stuff.

I've never thought of using it for video subscriptions. Great idea to have everything all in once place.

I use it for recipes! I use the iOS app Mela for recipe storage and it has a built-in RSS feed system to follow recipe blogs so you can easily add new recipes to your collection without having to visit all the sites separately.

• For my Mastodon feed, so I don't have to open yet another app
• For my Youtube and Nebula subscriptions, same
• For a few FB pages & others that post events, same
• For my Lemmy feed, same
• For all my news feeds (curated, usually) for a quick look at everything
• For my friends' posts so I know I won't miss a single one

I currently use the premium plan for Inoreader. I like tinyRSS, just didn't do it for me; I've been using RSS since Google Reader.

For RSS feed recommendations you can also take inspiration from this post: https://beehaw.org/post/618286

I use freshrss. It is my primary source of information. Here are some of the things I follow:

• Various Local News Sources
• Local City Council Blog
• Various National/International News Sources
• Various Blogs
• Comics (SMBC, xkcd, ...)
• Music Review Sites/Blogs
• Various Record Label feeds (I run a small distributor)
• YouTube Channels :: This is so much better than going to youtube
• New Releases/ChangeLogs of various OSS projects I follow and host
• Various Planet (Gnome/Gnu/Debian/...) Aggregators
• Google Alerts
• Lemmy Communities
• Reddit Communities (We'll see where these go)
• HomeLab/Cron :: Instead of dealing with emails, I generate RSS feeds from my cron scripts/home lab notifications
• Email Subscriptions :: I take some email notification (like new releases on bandcamp) and convert them to RSS

Since I can't stand twitter, and since so many of my local groups use twitter, I use FreshRSS (self-hosted) to list new posts via Nitter's RSS feature.

I also use RSS for Lemmy content and a few Reddit communities I still follow (until they show up on Lemmy) via old.reddit.com.

And some updates from YouTube channels or software release notes.

Really, my goal is to consolidate things, so I'm not checking 10 different sources every day.

I use newsboat for all my RSS needs, which is pretty much my main entry point for a lot of things:

• News sites
• Various blogs
• Youtube channels (I unsubscribed from everything on my YouTube account, hardly ever login, and only use RSS to follow the channels I want)
• Podcasts
• I used to have some subreddits in there too, but those were ritually deleted after June 12th of course

I don't. Google reader died, and all of the blogs put themselves on social media.

The walled garden is almost complete.