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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

i think youtube still supports rss feeds

i think some channels can turn it off but most don't.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

For websites that don't have an RSS feed, check out RSS-bridge! https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge

It generates web feeds for websites that don't have one.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 hours ago

yes daddy 🥺

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

The author of this excellent article mentioned that we and by extension, our friends, all hate being on TwiXter etc. but cant figure out a day to leave or place to go. While I believe the 'place' should be figured out amongst yourselves and there are many excellent options getting better by the day, I will do the hard thing and choose a time to make it easier for you/us....

December 28th, 2024

Please be sure to have you destination decided ahead of time. Just like voting, I suggest you do it early and feel free to be a part of the advance team that straddles between the new location while still using the former ahead of the 28th.

I believe in you and know you can do it. Tell your friends. ...and you're welcome :)

edit: RSS is a great tool that will make the move easier

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Hasn't RSS support been dropping these last few years? Last I heard was that RSS was dying, though I don't know how true that is.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

Probably not technically true because podcasts use RSS

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Any good readers for IOS that don’t require a subscription (preferably FOSS)?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I need an android rss reader that ACTUALLY caches the articles. I use feeder and most of the time it just fetches the titles, I've been through every setting. "fetch full articles by default" is on for all of my feeds.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Kind of not what you're looking for, but use rss2email to send everything as a mail to a mail address.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I’m more interested in good RSS feeds than RSS readers. Of courseI’ve got all my news in there, but I’m looking to add interesting feeds but don’t know where to look.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

What are you interested in? I might suggest you some.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago (5 children)

Thanks! I’m into psychology, technology, history and analytics of current affairs (background of conflicts or consequences for the rest of the world). I would love to hear your tips, if you’ve got some good recommendations.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I get a lot of mileage out of The Conversation's feeds (https://theconversation.com/) -- interesting academic-ish essays, written for a lay audience

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Historical background on current events: Heather Cox Richardson.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Holy shit, I just drafted a long list as a comment on you and forget to click post.

😓, damn you Jerboa for Lemmy.

I might post the list again later.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Arts and letters daily is great. Overlaps a bit with your interests, though not every day.

Aldaily.com

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Commenting to come back later for recos

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

I've used Feedly for years and it makes keeping with various types of news so much easier.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I'd love that it had the feature that Feeder has to fetch incomplete RSS articles and put them in a nice view... Only because of that I have used Feeder more as of lately (still Feedly is my main RSS source).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

Me too. I went Google reader to feedly and have been there since

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I kinda gave up on rss awhile ago when it seemed like feed availability was dropping and Google dropped support. Disagree with author that the reader doesn't matter. It can really shape your experience. Appreciate good recommendation for something that doesn't cost $2 a month.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

https://stackdiary.com/free-rss-readers/

This was pretty useful to me.

For android, I use Feeder, but I've also enjoyed Cappy, Neo Feed, Twine, and Nunti. Nunti is a really interesting one that uses a local, private smart algorithm to show you more of what interests you.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (5 children)

When Reddit went to shit I turned to RSS to get my daily news. After trying many different iOS apps, all of which either sucked or had a monthly fee, I came across one called feeeed.

It has become one of my favorite apps and I highly recommend it. It’s free and extremely well designed! I believe its creator also works on the Arc browser team.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Also for iOS, News Explorer. It uses iCloud to sync between your devices, everything is on device, and it will even somehow do Reddit feeds! (Uh, I mean, if you still do that, maybe…). One time payment. Glorious.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

old.reddit still has RSS feeds for subreddits, if there's anything you still want to follow there. e.g. https://old.reddit.com/r/technology.rss

The lemmy community for my city is completely dead, so I follow the subreddit this way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

I'm using News Explorer. One-time purchase, and syncs your feeds and read/unread status between macOS and iOS/ipadOS.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago

NetNewsWire works great for me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Hey, thanks… this looks clean/feels really slick.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

I definitely recommend turning on List view in the settings. The default card view is okay but it only lets you see 1-2 things at a time vs 5-6.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

I use the Feedbro extension right in my browser.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Did you know that, by default, your email sends information to mailing list platforms about your reading activity? The platform gets to know if you opened the message, and often how far along you've read in it.

What is this shitty email program they're talking about? Sure, they can embed a 1-pixel tracking image to see when you opened the email (if you allow auto-loading images), but how would they know how much you've read unless some incredibly horrible email program actively sends out that data?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Most made by large corps. For example, Apple got in some hot water not too long ago for changing the way they track in Apple Mail.

Servers track sent, delivered, bounced, and blocked.
Clients phone home with opened, read, CTR, and junk status.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago

Just... wow. I don't even enable notifications that I've opened an email.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

Yeah I've never heard of that either, and I've used email marketing platforms. They have a lot of analytics, but nothing anywhere near that level. (Granted, this was also back in like 2010.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

Love me some RSS.

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