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Why Everyone Should Still Use an RSS Reader in 2024 (lifehacker.com)
submitted 9 months ago by ginerel@kbin.social to c/technology@beehaw.org
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RSS is still the best way to track the news on the web, and these RSS readers can keep you right up to date.

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[–] spaduf@slrpnk.net 14 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Does anybody have any recommendations for FOSS RSS readers with actual content surfacing features? So many RSS feeds are full of junk (this is particularly a problem with feeds with wildly disparate posting frequencies) and I've always felt they'd be a lot more useful if people were putting more effort into a modern way to sort through extremely dense feeds.

[–] sourov@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

Fluent Reader

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Don't know what you mean by "actual content surfacing features", but I'm quite happy with Feeder, it's pretty basic but it's FOSS and the notifications work!

[–] spaduf@slrpnk.net 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Posted elsewhere: Really I mean anything more advanced than keyword filters and grouped feeds. Performance friendly NLP has come a long way since the advent of RSS

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 1 points 9 months ago

Fair enough, I'm not aware that Feeder has any of that. I don't even want filtering or groups, I just want a notification of every new post on a community or website!

[–] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Would you happen to mean readers with filtering tools? If so I'm interested as well.

I know Thunderbird technically has them, but I've had trouble making them work as effectively as I'd like. RSSOwl had some that were easier to work with, but stopped being updated. There's now a fork of it called RSSOwlnix, but I haven't taken the time to see whether it still works as well or not. May be worth looking into though...

[–] spaduf@slrpnk.net 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Really I mean anything more advanced than keyword filters. Performance friendly NLP has come a long way since the advent of RSS

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I mean anything more advanced than keyword filters.

Sounds like an opportunity to integrate some AI... 🙈

[–] spaduf@slrpnk.net 2 points 9 months ago

We don't need to use that word here