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It's always good to be in control of your own content sources.

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

Because of how many sites don’t use RSS feeds as much anymore, I’ve found it hard to adjust to them. I’ve been trying out the app Artifact as a sort of replacement but it’s not ideal (and everything has ads when I click through).

Still looking for a good solution for up to date, aggregated info on some of my favourite topics. This site comes pretty close but is still missing some things (for now).

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

After the closing of Google Reader and years of searching I settled a few years ago with Inoreader. I fully recommend it. They offer subscription discounts throughout the year where you can save ~40% of the cost.

Their webpage app is really good and the Android app is also extremely good and usable.

A great feature that I make use of is their option to create feeds from sites that don't offer RSS. Also I have connected Youtube so I have a feed with an update in my subscriptions

Completely recommended.

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

It seems I've been missing out and I have a few more services to stand up over the weekend and try out. It's been refreshing this week avoiding reddit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I have been using Feedly which is pretty much dead due to the reddit situation. Are there other similar tools that's Lemmy friendly?

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

You can also use reader clients - I use LiFeRea on linux, it's in the app repository as liferea. It;s free

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

@technology

Yeah, and this also applies to the fediverse as I've recently realized. X instance on a whim de-federating with W, Y and Z is just as bad. It just makes it a PITA to be a user. Plus one would think NSFW on an open platform would be better adopted but everyone avoids it like the plague. Only lemmynsfw is out there, and blocked from many places.

I'm setting up RSS to pull all the content I want from any place.

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

I've been using RSSHub and Miniflux for a while now, self-hosted. It's mainly how I read news.

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

I selfhost freshrss and it's amazing. If the reddit privacy frontends go down due to the api changes, I'll lose those feeds but I already replaced them with lemmy feeds anyways :)

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

I've been using Bazqux Reader since it's a single guy and seems to work well. I also know that Tiny Tiny RSS is a super cool self hostable one.

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

For some reason, I could never get into RSS readers. I tried, but quickly felt overwhelmed and gave up. I've tried to get back into it over and over again, but always get just absolutely rocked by the amount of content that can be pulled in and get discouraged. It's also hard and daunting to think about getting into it at this point, now, because there's so much content out there that I don't even know where to start with adding RSS links of stuff I follow...because sometimes I don't even know where I get my stuff from (just from all over, Instagram, Twitter, Reddit, email newsletters, kbin, Google News, etc.)

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

Understandable. RSS is fantastic for news and such, but lacks the community of comments which is what drives a lot of people to content they normally wouldn't read.

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

This for sure. to me, it just seems like such a wave of news content...but a lot of what I enjoyed about Reddit/social media (including kbin) is the community aspect, allowing for more nuanced and popular stuff to be driven to the top of the feed (based on upvotes, retweets, user activity, clicks, or what have you). So the lack of that in RSS stuff really hinders me from fully adopting it.

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

My number one visited reddit site was r/soccer. Discussion and highlights was half of the draw, but breaking news was the other half. Unfortunately, using RSS to get a collection of news/Twitter updates doesn't really provide value because I never really know the source. On reddit, there was always a bunch of comments or a highly upvoted comment that shared the reliability of the source. Quite often, there were reliable journalists working for shitty publications, so you could generally trust them despite not being able to trust other news on the site. I'll miss that.

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

Bro same. It's almost like FOMO. There's just so much content out there that I feel overwhelmed just trying to parse through what I'd actually want in an RSS feed and terrified i'm missing actual important stuff.

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

Glad to know I'm not alone...because of this thread, i downloaded a couple RSS readers (Feedly and Inoreader)...but, yep, that overwhelming/daunting feeling is back!

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

I’m not currently using RSS, it’s been years. And yes I also felt overwhelmed. I have same problem with Podcasts on my iPhone and honestly email. Just like in most cases I don’t want to be pushed content. My brain feels bad for not keeping up. The best use of RSS that I can imagine for me would be following a small number of original content creators who post erratically in multiple platforms. It’s another reason I love the fediverse so much bc we can slap /feed on the end of many addresses to pull that content elsewhere. And again I’m not currently using RSS lol. I’m just saying that I might use it for passionate follows. I think it’s a useful tool for getting people free of the big bad platforms.

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

Fired up a FreshRSS instance for myself when the reddit API notifications came about. Reminds me of my Google Reader days - quite happy with it thus far. Any of the decent quality news sites seem to have an RSS option, at least in my experience so far.

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

I have over 100 RSS feeds I've organized into different categories. It lets me get the latest updates from many websites all in one place. Even though some feeds now only supply a headline or partial article, it's still a much faster and comfortable experience than relying on Twitter or Reddit to do the same thing.

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

I switched to feedbro, because the feeds started to fill with anxiety driven news. So i needed something with good filtering.

https://nodetics.com/feedbro/

It's a browser plugin. Very modifiable, looks fine and behaves well. All that it misses is a way to sync. Has manual backups for feeds and filter-rules.

Tip. It can handle youtube channels and twitter users feeds.

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

I've been using the nextcloud RSS reader for a while now. Not the most feature rich, but it does the job for me.

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