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I use it for news aggregation with Nextcloud news. Also for podcasts and PeerTube channels. Anyone using RSS for other things?

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[–] apoisel@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] BadlyHunt@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I like that idea! Any chance you would be able to share the script or the general workflow?

[–] apoisel@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago

I just wrote down simplified versions of my scripts. Then I clicked the wrong button to exit the markdown preview and now it's all gone. I'll have to drink a beer now, sorry. If you have any specific questions, I'll answer them gladly.

[–] fitgse@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Parent's is more complicated, but this simple script may be a good place to start. In this case, I follow a channel that posts new music videos for discovery. This automatically downloads (just the audio) using yt-dlp to a local directory. It could easily be modified to download the video (just change the -f flag). I run this with cron once a day.

https://gist.github.com/line72/ceef5402881d6d3ae732e7b7c9cbf01b

[–] slaecker@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I self-host FreshRSS and use it for:

  • Blogs
  • News-Sites
  • Piped (YouTube) channels
  • GitHub releases
[–] TwinTurbo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

+1 for FreshRSS. It's excellent and has been very easy to host for years.

[–] leo@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show 2 points 2 years ago

FreshRSS here, too. Tech, State and local news all nicely sorted where I can firehose it or just see small sections.

[–] cnx@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 years ago

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
[–] Aurailious@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] ComradeMiao@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What news do you add to it?

[–] Aurailious@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nothing special, just WaPo, NPR, NYT, etc. I just prefer aggregating all those sites instead of going to them individually when I some that kind of news.

[–] ComradeMiao@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Thanks for explaining!

[–] proycon@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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
[–] Someology@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[–] Ticktok@lemmy.one 3 points 2 years ago

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

[–] bet@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] yopyop@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] macgregor@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Never used Inoreader, but recently switched to Newsblur which is open source (app installable via F-Droid) and selfhostable. If you don't want to self host they have a freemium model to use their hosted service, couldn't tell you what free vs paid gets you but I haven't bumped into any limits yet. You can also log in to their site to browse via web browser.

So far the app looks better than other open source readers I've tried and thumbnails generally load so the lists are a bit livelier.

[–] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] Lionir@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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..

[–] BigTechBlows@lemmy.one 2 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] Provider@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

tinytinyrss

[–] CassowaryTom@masto.ai 2 points 2 years ago

@privsecfoss Newsboat and feedly

[–] fouc@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

[–] sibloure@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] srpwnd@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] ComradeMiao@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Nilesse@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] basil@sarcasm.stream 1 points 2 years ago

@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.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] privsecfoss@feddit.dk 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Instead of going to blogs, YouTube, podcast etc. you subscribe to them and feetch news from them via RSS in a web or local client. IMHO the way things should work 🙂

[–] fitgse@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

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
[–] dreadedchalupacabra@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

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

The walled garden is almost complete.

[–] nickb333@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

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).

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