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With the decline of twitter and reddit, it's time to take a look at RSS again if you haven't already. (voidfiles.github.io)

submitted 1 year ago by tshannon@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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

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[–] somefool@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

I recently revived my netvibes account, which had been laying dormant for a few years, since everything I followed had slowly gone extinct. Webcomics concluded, blogs closed...

I also installed FreshRSS on a subdomain of my website and might just be moving to that entirely.

RSS hasnt gone away. Webcomics, podcasts, lemmy... A ton of stuff has feeds. It was cool to be on social media and read the reactions to the content, but I'm old enough to have done without before and it isn't half bad.

[–] lowleveldata@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I have been using Feedly which is pretty much dead due to the reddit situation. Are there other similar tools that's Lemmy friendly?

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[–] i_am_hungry@meganice.online 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been using RSSHub and Miniflux for a while now, self-hosted. It's mainly how I read news.

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[–] darkfoe@lemmy.serverfail.party 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Fired up a FreshRSS instance for myself when the reddit API notifications came about. Reminds me of my Google Reader days - quite happy with it thus far. Any of the decent quality news sites seem to have an RSS option, at least in my experience so far.

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[–] Riyria@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Anyone have any good suggestions for blogs to follow? I just downloaded inoreader and followed some of the suggested ones on there, but I used RSS so long ago I don't remember anything I used to really follow outside of my current interests.

[–] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 3 points 1 year ago

It seems I've been missing out and I have a few more services to stand up over the weekend and try out. It's been refreshing this week avoiding reddit.

[–] sin_free_for_00_days@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If only youtube sill offered a RSS feed from all my subscriptions. It's so annoying that I can't figure out how to get it.

[–] matt@infosec.pub 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use Miniflux and I've actually had luck just putting the channel url like youtube[.]com/channel/CHANNEL_NAME_HERE and the rss feed populates from there!

[–] sin_free_for_00_days@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

I wrote a quick bash script to one-click the rss feeds out the page source. I'm surprised most rss readers don't do that automatically, it's not an involved algorithm to pick that out.

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

It's in there if you inspect the source of the page.

Alternatively, feedly is able to detect and parse it, you only have to provide it the URL to the channel.

If you then don't want to use feedly, you can export your subscriptions as a opml file, and import them in another reader.

A bit of a convoluted solution, if you don't want to inspect the source.

[–] sin_free_for_00_days@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I was able to write a quick hacky one liner to parse the source and paste the rssUrl into my reader. It didn't take as long as I was expecting to get the 30-40 channels into my rss reader. I think my previous issue was the rss reader I was using didn't like something about the format. RSS Guard didn't have an issue with it. Thanks.

Edit: I can't believe I didn't do this earlier. newsboat has Vim keybindings and the interface reminds me a lot of mutt. Clear videos through mpv with zero ads. I'm in heaven right now. I haven't looked at RSS in at least a decade.

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[–] nofunberg@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been using NewsBlur (and syncing with Reeder on mobile) ever since Google killed their RSS service. It supports parsing some non-RSS sites and services, as well.

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[–] jtn@granitestate.social 3 points 1 year ago

I’ve been enjoying NewsBlur since Google Reader went offline.

[–] DiscoShrew@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

I've been using Bazqux Reader since it's a single guy and seems to work well. I also know that Tiny Tiny RSS is a super cool self hostable one.

[–] KonQuesting@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

I have over 100 RSS feeds I've organized into different categories. It lets me get the latest updates from many websites all in one place. Even though some feeds now only supply a headline or partial article, it's still a much faster and comfortable experience than relying on Twitter or Reddit to do the same thing.

[–] net00@infosec.exchange 2 points 1 year ago

@technology

Yeah, and this also applies to the fediverse as I've recently realized. X instance on a whim de-federating with W, Y and Z is just as bad. It just makes it a PITA to be a user. Plus one would think NSFW on an open platform would be better adopted but everyone avoids it like the plague. Only lemmynsfw is out there, and blocked from many places.

I'm setting up RSS to pull all the content I want from any place.

[–] DarkWasp@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Because of how many sites don’t use RSS feeds as much anymore, I’ve found it hard to adjust to them. I’ve been trying out the app Artifact as a sort of replacement but it’s not ideal (and everything has ads when I click through).

Still looking for a good solution for up to date, aggregated info on some of my favourite topics. This site comes pretty close but is still missing some things (for now).

[–] kamin@lemmy.kghorvath.com 2 points 1 year ago

I've been self hosting miniflux. The UI works great on both desktop and mobile, but I also use NetNewsWire on iOS to connect to it.

[–] parallax@local106.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Feedly has been a decent RSS service for me. While not self hosted it has been worlds better that TTRSS. That said, it has been roughly a decade since I assessed the space so I am open to alternatives.

[–] Sakujakira@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

Did you take a look at FreshRSS?

[–] agressivearmpit@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

I was using Feedly for a long time but just discovered and paid for NewsBlur and it’s amazing. The killer feature is being able to easily see new posts as they come in as part of the Ui rather than having to refresh.

[–] ijustlookatpictures@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

I've been using the nextcloud RSS reader for a while now. Not the most feature rich, but it does the job for me.

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