RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication, and it is a simple, standardized content distribution method that can help you stay up-to-date with your favorite newscasts, blogs, websites, and social media channels. Instead of visiting sites to find new posts or subscribing to sites to receive notification of new posts, find the RSS feed on a website and read new posts in an RSS reader.
Do you use RSS to curate your own information feed? Looking to expand my sources to include different perspectives and new interesting topics and would love any suggestions.
Yeah. I run my own FreshRSS server and use FeedMe to access it. It’s mostly just a bunch of UK newspapers and tech news sites because I realised I was getting all my news from Twitter and I wanted to cut back my use of Twitter. It’s fine. The great thing about getting my news from social media was that I’d follow a load of people with similar interests to me so I’d mostly just see articles that interested me regardless of the source. Now it takes more scrolling to get past the articles I don’t care about to find the ones I want to read. It means I get a broader overview of news that isn’t effectively curated for me, either by other people or by algorithm, but it’s not as engaging. It is the right choice though if you’re looking to see more outside of what you’re usually shown, as you say.
I’ve been running tiny tiny tss (ttrs) server since google reader died. It’s been great & there’s an android app.
There is also an iOS app. It is quite simple but it works well.
I have been an RSS user for the past 20 years. I use it for all sorts of stuff including current news, keeping up with technology, health, classified listings (craigslist), site updates, forums, etc.
I used GoogleReader for a long time (RIP), now I use Feedly which is amazing. I hit the ALL button so I get a firehose of news feeds which are sorted by timestamp, NOT some dumb algorithm choosing when and what I see.
As I tell everyone, whenever a current event happens in the world, I see 20+ different headlines from different sites spinning the same story. This lets me cut through the BS and see the real story about what’s happening.
I subscribe to a few hundred RSS feeds including a bunch of random useless ones. But here’s a few I picked that might be beneficial - note that some of these sites have multiple rss feeds depending on specific topics - be sure not to subscribe just to the main “top stories” feeds.
ABCNews , InvestorPlace, Associated Press, Ars Technica, The Nation, BBC News, CNN, Fox News, The Hill, LA Times, New York Times, MSNBC, Mother Jones, NBC News, NPR, Newsweek, Politico, Time, Scientific America, Slashdot, Techcrunch, TechRadar, The Atlantic, Boston Globe, The Independant, Motley Fool, Google News Top Stories, USA Today, Vox, Wired, Yahoo News, Cnet, Men’s Health, TechRepublic, WallStreetJournal, TheStreet
I’d also love to hear some other news sources I can add to my subscriptions, because I know I’m missing a bunch of good ones
Yes indeed. Feedly is great and available everywhere. Zero dollars paid ever.
About 50% of what I read
onlineis just RSS. For cli fans, newsboat lets you extend the RSS feeds really easily. So far, I have:- gemini translation, to get gemini feeds, and a hotkey to open them.
- a hotkey to open things in w3m (most articles work fine in the terminal, many are easier to read)
- a hotkey to open youtube videos
- another to download them and watch later
Yeah. It’s the easiest way to stay up to date on news without getting blasted with ads. Almost all news apps are bloated with bullshit features.
I use fluent reader with the following rss feeds (though I really need to expand
Blog Title URL ACSC - Recent Alerts https://www.cyber.gov.au/acsc/view-all-content/alerts/rss Check out Linux Foundation’s Blog https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/rss.xml Microsoft Azure Blog https://azurecomcdn.azureedge.net/en-au/blog/feed/ Cloud & Enterprise Technology https://build5nines.com/feed/ The latest articles from GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/article_rss.php Tecmint - Linux Howtos, Tutorials, Guides, News, Tips and Tricks. https://www.tecmint.com/feed/ A Linux and Open Source Web Portal https://itsfoss.com/feed/ Announcements, Updates, and Launches https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/feed/ Just another Amazon Web Services site https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/feed/ News from the Mint Team https://blog.linuxmint.com/?feed=rss2 How-tos and tutorials for sys admins https://linuxways.net/feed/ We keep an eye on digital trends, technology, focusing on tech business and software companies. We also provide how-to tutorials for Linux. http://feeds.feedburner.com/noobslab The latest and greatest news from the Arch Linux distribution. https://archlinux.org/feeds/news/ Just another GNOME Blogs site https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/feed/ An independent, reader-supported publication focusing on Linux Command Line, Server, Self-hosting, DevOps and Cloud Learning https://linuxhandbook.com/rss/ Tutorials for Linux https://linuxbuz.com/feed nixCraft: Linux Tips, Hacks, Tutorials, And Ideas In Blog Format (RSS/FEED) https://www.cyberciti.com/atom/atom.xml Discord Blog https://discord.com/blog/rss.xml The Mozilla Blog https://blog.mozilla.org/feed/ main https://500mile.email/feed.xml Yes
I’ve tried so many RSS platforms but it doesn’t work for me (I blame my ADHD). As sad as it is, I always got my country & world news from Reddit in the past.
Great thing about rss is that you can rss reddit subs too, and even use reddit front ends to set up the rss.
Before hosting my own FreshRSS instance I used TheOldReader (and Google Reader before that). It’s a great way of focusing you’re attention and keep track of sites. It does hurt them though, since it won’t load their ads.
On the other hand, if you also use adblocker, RSS hurts them less by being more efficient on their servers.
Yes. Self-hosted FreshRSS, which can pull the full articles, reading either via FreshRSS or feedme on android. I basically never visit websites if I’m not searching something specific.
yup. I also use a self hosted FreshRSS server, and it’s great. I can get all my content in one place without having to remember to go to websites.
FreshRSS is great. It’s easy to host and there are so many client apps that can interface with it. I had fallen out of using RSS after google reader died, getting back into it has really eliminated a lot of the wasted time browsing random websites.
Nice to see a FOSS alternative to TTRSS. I tried to contribute to the latter once, it was an… interesting experience.
I don’t have first hand experience, but yeah, I’ve read about challenges with the maintainer of TTRSS and decided on FreshRSS. Been very happy with FreshRSS for years so never tried TTRSS.
Yes I do. Just briefly described them today @ https://sh.itjust.works/comment/626296
Yeah, I’ve been an RSS user for 20ish years now. I’ve used feedly since GReader, but I’m considering going with a local docker solution soon.
Yeah, of course. How else will I know when my various serialized content updates? Like, are people out there just checking a list of blogs and comics by hand every few days? I used to do that before RSS, and it suuuuuucked.
I stopped using RSS around when I started using Reddit, so around 2008-2009!
I’m surprised to see that it’s still so popular, or has it gained traction again recently?
I didn’t hear much about RSS in between 2010-2022 TBH.The whole podcast ecosystem is based on RSS. It’s more popular than ever. People just don’t realize that they’re using RSS.
It never really died, but it got a boost lately with people getting more critical about the sources they get the news from instead of relying on Google or Apple algorithms. Fediverse supporting RSS also didn’t hurt.
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RSS is great! I use it for Slashdot, Youtube, some webcomics.
I use Inoreader, it provides a great way to quickly get up to speed on the news, without relying on ‘human curators’ on reddit or twitter. I’ve been able to add lemmy and kbin community feeds no problem, and it currently serves as my ‘front page’, until lemmy itself becomes more stable.
Auto-de-duplication and word filters help me keep my sanity and avoid the constant musk-worship on tech sites.
