Although RSS feeds are alive and still heavily used today, their level of adoption has suffered because of how difficult a handful of popular technology companies have made it to use them. Google, especially, has relied on the open web RSS protocol to gain so much market share and influence, but continues to engage in behavior that exploits the open web at the expense of its users. As a result, Google has single-handedly contributed to the reason many users who once relied on RSS feeds have stopped using them.

  • @frunch
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    5 months ago

    I’ve been considering trying RSS based on the feedback I’ve read about it over the years. Never got around to it though… Any suggestions where to start? Is there a particular reader anyone can recommend?

    Edit: wow–thanks for all the responses!!

      • @frunch
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        25 months ago

        Come to think of it, i heard of this one recently… Never got around to trying it though. Thanks for the suggestion!

    • BrikoXOPM
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      65 months ago

      Fluent Reader is my client of choice.
      Tiny Tiny RSS is a great web based self-hosted option.

      You can also integrate Tiny Tiny RSS feed (via Fever API) into Fluent Reader.

      • @frunch
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        15 months ago

        Thanks for the recommendations! I’ll check em out this weekend.

    • @PopOfAfrica
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      35 months ago

      Its paid (or self hosted), but I love feedbin. It has completely replaced my YouTube Feed.

      • @frunch
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        15 months ago

        Interesting! I’ll def check this out, i really could use an alternative to my YouTube feed…