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

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

RSS has always been great! Thankfully I never relied on Google Reader and have been using Newsify for 5+ years. Great app with a great newspaper view as well as an identical web version. Keept me off of Google and don't have to rely on Feedly either.

Newsify also supports Feedly accounts though I've never needed to consider migrating. I think I've had a couple full text issues with certain items but it's been amazing great and I've really enjoyed their product and price point for subscription ($50CAD/yr, I believe)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I miss Press from TwentyFive Squares. The theme was very e-ink-ish, worked great, felt nice, didn't have any of the annoying garbage that's since become pretty norm for readers.

Still works on older Android OSes, I think. But since Press hasn't updated since 2014, it doesn't have security for new Android, I think.

Wonder if it would work on Graphene or something?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Can I get an RSS feed to show up formatted like Reddit/Lemmy? I played around with it only once way the fuck back in high school and only because I confused it with CSS for altering the look of a site.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I would I would! But I cannot seem to find a decent one since Google killed theirs! What's a good one?

I could keep up with so much more when I used RSS.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I mean they talk about that in the article. That said, I tried Feedly and IMO it wasn't anywhere near Google Reader.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Anyone else use NewsBlur Apps or WebApp. They have a free and paid, which works well enough to aggregate the sites I need to get a diverse news collection in an RSS like format.

I still miss google reader and past times, but gotta adapt.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I seem to remember RSS's main issue being not really being able to tell "recent" from "popular".

Showed a whole lot of nothing much, and not very much of the stuff you wanted to see.

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