I still use it every day to access new content from my YouTube channels that I watch since I don't have a Google account and for tech news.
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How do I set this up?
Say I want to get an RSS feed for when Practical Engineering uploads a new video?
I find they just get buried in YouTube and I’d love to set this up for the channels I am really interested so they don’t get lost in the noise.
If you're down to use Piped as a YT front-end, there's an RSS icon on every channel page in the top right corner.
If you want to use YouTube directly, use the following link and append the channel ID of whatever channel you want to follow: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=
Another alternative would be using something like FreeTube, which can use RSS to fetch subscriptions (but doesn't by default unless you're subbed to a high number of channels).
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I loved RSS feeds. But I’ve given up on them. And it would seem so have many of the sites I used to frequent. I read RSS offline, so right there I have a problem as the vast majority of RSS apps expect an internet connection. Sites used to write content in such a manner that it was easily readable in RSS, now they don’t. The decline in popularity of RSS has meant that after I get comfortable with an app it stops being updated and no longer works as the developer decides it’s not worth keeping up. Sites make RSS feeds harder to find, if they even have one.
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I started fiddling with a self hosted rss thing but never got around to putting the app on my new phone. I might give a different one a try sometime it was kinda basic.
Definitely try "Read You"! It utilises Material You, has a sick UI and the dev is really nice. I think there are a lot of features, but I've just left almost everything on default.
I highly recommend NewsBlur if you don’t want to host your own.
When I switched from Reddit to Lemmy, I started using Feeder for news to fill that gap. I think my podcast app on Linux also uses RSS.
I also used Feeder with Nitter for a while to keep up with friends posting on Twitter (I never really got into Twitter myself). Though that stopped working at some point.
So yeah, RSS definitely still has uses today.
Podcasting uses RSS in general, yes!
Another Feedly user, here. Definitely the way to go after the death of Google Reader.
My only concern with it is that I'd prefer any advertisement revenue to go to the original website with the content I want. Fortunately, if the website's ads aren't intrusive, I just disable ad block on that site and click through to it, giving them the views they need to keep going.
That's the way to go! Plus, feedly syncs among app and website
Inoreader ftw!
Got Feeder to try RSS on my PC based on this post, added a bunch of cool sites, was enjoying it, and then quickly got smacked in the face with "upgrade to view more posts".
Anyone recommend an RSS reader that doesn't have stupid "fuck you, pay me" limitations?
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I'm using Feeder app and it's the best. Others are resource heavy and light apps won't load the whole story instead redirects. Which is a problem. Feeder on the other hand, free open source privacy respecting light app which shows the whole story in the app itself. Very very useful and not a disturbing one.
RSS is my everyday goto, I'm using QuiteRSS with filters for specific words, really neat one.
As someone who has only dipped his toe into this tech, and into podcasts, for that matter, what's the best android app to use for this?
I don't really want to use Spotify, etc. Is there a preferred independent and/or FOSS that people like?
I use Feeder for RSS feeds
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Does anyone have a list of sites with good RSS feeds? News sites preferably - I’m having a hard time finding some of them.
I don't know what client you're using, but Inoreader usually finds the RSS feed even if the webpage does not link to it
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