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Why Everyone Should Still Use an RSS Reader in 2024 (lifehacker.com)

submitted 2 years ago by Ninjazzon to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Whatever the linguistic details, one of the main roles of RSS is to supply directly to you a steady stream of updates from a website. Every new article published on that site is served up in a list that can be interpreted by an RSS reader.

Unfortunately, RSS is no longer how most of us consume "content." (Google famously killed its beloved Google Reader more than a decade ago.) It's now the norm to check social media or the front pages of many different sites to see what's new. But I think RSS still has a place in your life: Especially for those who don't want to miss anything or have algorithms choosing what they read, it remains one of the best ways to navigate the internet. Here's a primer on what RSS can (still!) do for you, and how to get started with it, even in this late era of online existence.

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[–] ardi60@reddthat.com 3 points 2 years ago

newsboat is also quite stable as a RSS reader. if you like command line

[–] nullpotential@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Lifehacker is still around? Haven't seen that name in years

[–] harsh3466@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

It’s a shell of its former self. I miss Gina Tripani era Lifehacker.

[–] Andre@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

On IOS try feeeed

https://apps.apple.com/de/app/feeeed-rss-reader-and-more/id1600187490

[–] spaduf@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Does anybody have any recommendations for FOSS RSS readers with actual content surfacing features? So many RSS feeds are full of junk (this is particularly a problem with feeds with wildly disparate posting frequencies) and I've always felt they'd be a lot more useful if people were putting more effort into a modern way to sort through extremely dense feeds.

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

Not FOSS, but ad free and its been able to find the hidden RSS feeds for things OK. FeedDemon at: http://bradsoft.com/

Probably not what you are after, but maybe someone with a similar question.

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

If anyone is using an apple device, NetNewsWire is open source and is dead simple. No extra features, no premium tier, can sync with iCloud or self hosted servers, and the reader mode can be applied source-wide.

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

i find it frustrating if i can't immediately tell the poster of a site their content is wrong or sucks or is generally bad. therefore social media is my only option, because the world must know my valuable contributions.....🤌🤌

[–] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Inoreader user here. RSS feeds are great.

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

What did you try to mean by, whatever the linguistic details. What are you talking about when you say linguistic details?

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

I always wonder if the sites I'm interested in are using rss, that's why I never really tried it.

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