I Ditched the Algorithm for RSS - and You Should Too

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?

Cool tip.

If you want news for a specific game and they release news on steam.. all steam pages have an RSS feed.

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.

Protip: Youtube channels have RSS feeds, they're just buried in the source of the page. Ctrl-U and then Ctrl-F title="RSS"

I never stopped using it. It's a shame some sites don't have an rss feed anymore though...

How do you all discover new RSS feeds to subscribe to?

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.

Wait until I show them my PHP BB.

The problem I run into is most news sites optimize for 2 things

1. Getting on google
2. 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 frankly hate those posts in which people tells me what I should do. Just write "Hey, look, this is cool!" and let me judge it and decide.

Unfortunately a lot of sites have ditched support for RSS over the past 10 years requiring tedious work arounds if you can get it to work at all.

I hope it can make a comeback but I'm dubious.

I use RSS but as far as I'm concerned, Lemmy is better, because it is categorized and ranked.

Google Reader was my goto and when they killed that I tried a bunch of others and none quite hit the same. Gutted that one hit the Google graveyard.

I did this too recently. Highly recommend.

I've been interested in trying out RSS again but I don't want to self-host. Can anyone recommend a RSS client (hosted, local, or whatever) that they like?

never stopped using rss/atom with ttrss 💪

I am using RSS and I love it

We gotta bring back usenet servers and dare I say IRC and Telnet

I just saw this article last week! I love RSS feeds and set up a bunch through my work email outlook client. They been there since like 2010 (yes I still have the same job...) and I barely touch them these days due to time, and some sites died, but it's still the quickest way to catch up on the news you want. Wherever I saw this posted last I saw a recommend for FeedFlow and have been messing with that phone app to try and make some ultimate new feed for myself.

Shot out to freshness, been using that for years! Self hosting it

For iOS, this one doesn't collect any data. It's pretty barebones, but also free. It nags you a bunch at first but eventually stopped

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/rss-news-ticker/id1548190121

Wait until this guy gets to 2012, and discovers Flipboard.....

Nice webpage there sir. Material for MkDocs right?