I find if I add a few RSS feeds and then come back a few days later I have 800 unread links, get overwhelmed, and delete the app. I've never been able to make RSS stick for me.

i gotta be real, i don't get the hype people go on about with RSS, it's like being hyped about DNS

yeah sure it's a good protocol that should be used more, but it's uh, it's just a feed? i don't see what's so amazing about it, do some people just subscribe to 5000 email newsletters and stuff like that?

I like RSS, i think it can improve the information diet people have by getting high quality content. kinda an alternative to more popular content (meaning possibly low effort) pushed to us using algorithms or just created to appeal to the masses because it is more economical.

It does have a UX problem, i think we need some open source project where you click on a button and it will show you the RSS address but also give you the option to set up RSS while it coaches you to do it in a way that is kinda pleasant and easy.

It's a bit tricky to setup. Are there any relatively updated guides to help point out the best settings/tweaks? How do you go about which communities to include without getting overwhelmed? I also worry about creating too much of a self-enclosed echo-chamber with this aggregation tool approach, but maybe it's just my paranoia showing

newsboat <3

I've used 'KillTheNewsletter' a lot. And then it hit me. Most email clients have features I want for my feeds (filtering, auto-sorting into folders by keywords, etc.)

So far, only emacs (forgot extension name) and feedbro (firefox extension) have similar festures to these...

Hence, I'm yet to try it, but might create an account only for feeds. And then use rss2email (pypi)

Is anyone else using this tool? I'd love to hear it...

@Charger8232 It seems it does.. Oh this is cool!

How do I get started with RSS? Android.

RIP Aaron Swartz. You are truely missed...

...Is it just me or does the shooter have the same smile? I've heard he's really smart.

Do you have a recommendation for a website that lets me subscribe to RSS feeds and display them publicly (without needing account or JavaScript to see the combined feed)?

I see another commenter mentioned FreshRSS. While abandoned now, I created https://github.com/Fmstrat/agriget a long time ago when Feedly shut down. It was based on TT-RSS which I do not recommend because of drama with the creator (they are very.. bad to contributors (I stupidly ignored that originally). Not to mention, it's dated now.

All this to say, my recco is to self host with an agregator that saves the content locally. That way, if the article ever goes away, or your phone dies, you always have your saved and read content.

I host my own Lemmy instance, and have been considering making an API not that turns RSS feeds into communities, as the one thing I like about Lemmy is the conversations. So that would give me the best of both worlds.

RSS is great and Google tried to kill it so you'd have to use other services.

I like how I can tell a big event has happened because I see a bunch of articles on it, and that it's possible to catch up to where you last were in the feed.

That means you've caught up on the news, no need to red any more, you can do something else. Algorithms always serve you up new content, so you're in this constant state of thinking something is always happening.

I think RSS readers would help fix the brains of a lot of boomers if we could ever get them off Facebook

My only gripe with RSS is the usual dependency on a synchronization server (whether it is a 3rd party server or self-hosted). I have been searching for way too long for a local-first RSS application for both Linux and Android which would store the RSS feeds (as in, the downloaded posts) in a local folder that could be then synchronized between Linux and Android applications using Syncthing or similar. Sadly, still no results. Anyone know about something?

Maybe a dumb thought but I just realised if Lemmy does RSS maybe I could add Lemmy feeds to my Friendica account. ??

I'm annoyed that a lot of the sites I browse don't have RSS feeds, and I've had to do some really tiresome hacks just to get some to work (for example, even tools like FreshRSS's HTML parser doesn't tell you the reason a feed broke, so there's a dozen different things to adjust blindly until it works).

RSS saves me so much time, I used to waste hours just cycling through pages to see if any updated.

I've been happily using RSS feeds for many years. I mostly use them for webcomics. I've got a bunch of different webcomic feeds. But I also use RSS to follow a bunch of low-traffic sites that I care about the content of but don't want to have to manually visit just to see if there's an update.

Also, I don't have a google account, but I use RSS to follow a couple of youTube channels that I find interesting. (Again, stuff that rarely updates. eg. hbomberguy.)

I love RSS.

I run FreshRSS as my server via docker and connect to it via Read You on Android and NewsFlash on Linux

I also run RSS-Bridge in docker. It has been really useful as it can generate RSS feeds for many websites that don't natively have them.