Why Everyone Should Still Use an RSS Reader in 2024
Why Everyone Should Still Use an RSS Reader in 2024
RSS is still the best way to track the news on the web, and these RSS readers can keep you right up to date.
RSS is fine for what it is, but it addresses a use case that only rarely applies to me -- wanting to see all or nearly all of the content put out from some feed.
There are a few sources for which I'll do that -- I look at The War Zone, for example. But for the great majority of sources, any feed has a mix of content that I want to see mixed with content that I don't want to see. I think that link aggregators like Reddit or the Fediverse do a better job of picking up interesting content and filtering out the uninteresting.
I'll use RSS to obtain podcast feeds. But for webpages, I just usually don't want to see all the content that a given source is putting out.
I‘m using a RSS reader with rule based filters to remove uninteresting articles (to me) and upvote or downvote articles with certain keywords (for me). That way I can aggregate lots of media and have my own personal feed.
It takes some time to set up and fine-tune, though.
What RSS reader is this? I’ve been wanting to get back into it for a while but I too need to be able to filter things down to a digestible form.
Feedbro, it's a browser extension.
do you recommend any fediverse instances (or even subreddits) that might share informative/fun/interesting articles or websites of any kind? i feel the quality on reddit has really tanked in the last couple years.
I mean, that kind of heavily depends on the area of your interests; I don't think that it's really possible to say "forum X is interesting" in a vacuum. I'd add that I still think that there are interesting subreddits on Reddit, though I agree that the front page isn't very appealing these days, at least to me.
On the Threadiverse, though, I would say that as things stand, lemmy is not really good at helping one find existing communities. There's the newcommunities announcement community at !newcommunities@lemmy.world, but those, by definition, don't have a userbase when announced, and some of the creators don't do the work of regularly posting content until they catch on. Kbin reccomends random posts in the sidebar, but that's a pretty shotgun way to find things.
What I'd probably do is use the Lemmy Explorer's community search, which as things stand is the only way I'm aware of to search all of the communities across all of the instances on the Threadiverse.
thanks a bunch that helps! in terms of reddit, i've been using it for almost 15 years and the subreddits i liked seem to have changed recently, or maybe gotten "too big". i think the API changes last year really shook things up too. hence why i'm on beehaw now! anyway, i'll take a look at the lemmy verse communities, thanks!
That is a good way indeed, although I’m yet to find a way to filter after new or active communities.
Look at the drop-down menu next to the search field, which lets you sort via different criteria.
I think "newest publish time" is the date of community creation; new communities at the top.
For activity, it has number of active users in various given periods of time.
@tal thank you!
@awmire Friendica supports RSS if you're into that. You might already know it is mostly a Facebook alternative (although it has many more features than Facebook). You can paste the website link into the search bar and it gets the RSS feed for you if it has one.
I do like RSS feed readers that have a magazine view though, so I couldn't really move all my feeds here.
